Body Quote by Rachel Zucker

“POETRY SHAPES MY GENDER.”

— Amy King

Poetry is the skin that I have between my body and the world's body.

— Lucie Brock-Broido

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

— Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

There are a couple of poems I've written with masculine muses, very often the muse to me is a female.

— Shirley Geok-lin Lim

Many of my poems are not sexual.

— Thom Gunn

Every poem is an infant labored into birth and I am drenched with sweating effort, tired from the pain and hurt of being a…

— Jimmy Santiago Baca

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

— Jeffrey McDaniel

For women, then, poetry is not a luxury. It is a vital necessity of our existence.

— Audre Lorde

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

— Carrie Lorig

Alienation between the content and form happens frequently in my poems because I obstinately carry on dismantling my body, an act you can also…

— Kim Hyesoon

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

— Charles Bukowski

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