Big mouth Quote by Jeanette Winterson

“I speak here of poetry as a revelatory distillation of experience, not the sterile word play that, too often, the white fathers distorted the…

— Audre Lorde

“A poet looks at the world as a man looks at a woman. ”

— Wallace Stevens

The woman poet must be either a sexless, reclusive eccentric, with nothing to say specifically to women, or a brilliant, tragic, tortured suicide.

— Marilyn Hacker

“Here is Lady Winchilsea, for example, I thought, taking down her poems. She was born in the year 1661; she was noble both by…

— Virginia Woolf

“The history of man is a must read poetry.”

— Lailah Gifty Akita

“My own luck was being born white and middle-class into a house full of books, with a father who encouraged me to read and…

— Adrienne Rich

“With women poets we look at or into, but not up at, sacred things; we unlearn submission.”

— Alicia Ostriker

“just another poem's male / diagnosis dancing the corpses of womenspeaking”

— Carrie Lorig

“A poet is somebody who has written a poem.”

— Wallace Stegner

“And the poet who fears to take the risk that what he writes may turn out not to be poetry at all, is a…

— T.S.Eliot

“You wish to be a poet; you wish to be a lover. But the splendid clarity of your intelligence, and the remorseless honestly of…

— Virginia Woolf

“Poetry can have varied and useful functions; and seduction is apparently something worth writing poetry for.”

— Shira Wolosky