Birth Quote by Jimmy Santiago Baca

Once, I compared poetry to mothers in my book called To Write as a Woman, because my mother is someone who captures me in…

— Kim Hyesoon

Sweet Christ, you must know that a man will go further for any poem than for any woman ever born.

— Charles Bukowski

My poetry definitely comes out of a female body.

— Rachel Zucker

Just as a child is really a thing that wants to become a man, so is the poem an object of nature that wants…

— Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

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

— Carrie Lorig

May you be ordinary, as the poet once wished the new-born baby.

— Julian Barnes

“Ordering a man to write a poem is like commanding a pregnant woman to give birth to a red-haired child.”

— Carl Sandburg

“POETRY SHAPES MY GENDER.”

— Amy King

I stop writing the poem to fold the clothes. No matter who lives or who dies, I'm still a woman. I'll always have plenty…

— Tess Gallagher

Poems have their own fates, like children. You have only to give birth to them.

— Andrei Voznesensky

I think that poetry is perfect for women raising children, with just bits of time and such need to connect to other women out…

— Francesca Lia Block

“My poem must expurgate my manhood unveil the animality of the best of my being, reveal both the monster behind the friendly smile and…

— Eddy Toussaint