Poet Quote by Shirley Geok-lin Lim

Signs of a maddening system of writing and counting that calibrates the values of something the poet does not yet know. Praxis is therefore…

— Shirley Geok-lin Lim

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

— Alicia Ostriker

The formal stuff feels old and windy. Not to say you shouldn't know prosody. But it's a wonderful time for exploratory poetics. Contemporary poets…

— Anne Waldman

“at man’s height the mouth utters its cries, tosses forth its oracles, gives vent to its puns. To allow words to come to life,…

— Michel Leiris

One of the things I've always thought is that if I were to write a poetics, it would have to do with the poetics…

— Martha Ronk

“There is a thin line between poetry and word salad.”

— Richard Carl Evans

“The genuine artist, Harris is saying, finds reality in a point of identity between subject and object, a point at which the created world…

— Northrop Frye

“And the beautiful lady, still with her beautiful wasp’s waist, the very beautiful lady whose charms buzz around our childish dreams, will not turn…

— Michel Leiris

“Human beings, in a sense, may be thought of as multidimensional creatures composed of such poetic considerations as the individual need for self-realization, subdued…

— Aberjhani

“Midway between the too soiled ground and the too-sublime vaults, at the level of the air, entering the skin of the role, poetry plays…

— Michel Leiris

“The appropriation of the creativity-procreativity metaphor by women is a conscious challenge to traditional poetics and beyond that to traditional metaphysics, for the gynocentric…

— Alicia Ostriker

“To Wallace Stevens' post-Nietzschean formula 'God and the imagination are one,' these women poets would add a crucial third element: God and the imagination…

— Alicia Ostriker