Anthem Quote by Roland Barthes

As far as I was concerned, it was the absence of women in the poetic tradition which allowed women in the poems to be…

— Eavan Boland

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

— Carrie Lorig

Queen Latifah was writing poetry. Maybe Latifah's 'Ladies First' and Angelou's 'Phenomenal Woman' are the same thing, a generation apart.

— Jason Reynolds

They are poets of gesture.

— George Balanchine

There were poets before Homer.

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

The poets are the standard bearers of language. Their work lives or dies word by word. When I write and can hear a clunky…

— Janet Fitch

She was not a poet. She was a poem.

— Deborah Levy

“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 language of poetry is not stuck in place. Nothing can own language. I think, however, the genre of poetry itself is very feminine…

— Kim Hyesoon

A poet must sing for his own people.

— Edmund Clarence Stedman

The trouble with the performance poets is that they don't seem to have read anything. So there is not a real sense of the…

— Peter Davison

American poets celebrate their bodies, very specifically, as Whitman did.

— Diane Wakoski