Iconic Quote by Shabana Azmi

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

— Alicia Ostriker

One of the things women poets have been engaged in - among the other things they've been doing - is revising parts of the…

— Eavan Boland

“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

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

— Audre Lorde

“Many are poets, but without the name; For what is Poesy but to create From overfeeling Good or Ill; and aim At an external…

— George Gordon Byron

“In all ages woman has been the source of all that is pure, unselfish, and heroic in the spirit and life of man.....poetry and…

— Anonymous

Women have burnt like beacons in all the works of all the poets from the beginning of time.

— Virginia Woolf

When a woman writes you a poem, she spends time with the gods on your behalf.

— Aja Monet

“In Poems of Love and Light: The Light of The Sun…Our Breath as One, the tenor seems to have changed slightly, as the progression…

— Frank L. DeSilva

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

— Carrie Lorig

“All women are wonderful, are the most divine creation, owners of all dreams and desires, inspiration from poets, lull of men at war. They…

— Augusto Branco

“Poetry is emotional in nature and theatrical in operation.”

— Philip Larkin