Brilliant Quote by Marilyn Hacker

I feel that women of my kind are a profound mistake. There have been few women poets of distinction, and, if we count only…

— Anna Wickham

“She's an irritating, opinionated woman, a type Buddy can't stand. I don't think he could see her for what she is. A person, deprived,…

— J.D. Salinger

Women do not have as great a need for poetry because their own essence is poetry.

— Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

There is one type of ideal woman very seldom described in poetry - the old maid, the woman whom sorrow or misfortune prevents from…

— Lafcadio Hearn

A beautiful woman is a practical poet.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

— Carrie Lorig

She is unable to dream, think or love. In a woman, poetry never comes naturally, but always as the result of education. Only the…

— Edmond de Goncourt

There's two kinds of women--those you write poems about and those you don't.

— Jeffrey McDaniel

“She's an irritating, opinionated woman- a type Buddy can't stand. I don't think he could see her for what she is. A person deprived,…

— J.D. Salinger

“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

These impossible women! How they do get around us! The poet was right: can't live with them, or without them!

— Aristophanes

She was not a poet. She was a poem.

— Deborah Levy