Bizarre Quote by Vanna Bonta

We speak of the masculine and the feminine, but they are the wrong labels. It is really more a matter of poetry versus intellectualization.

— Anais Nin

I see no reason for calling my work poetry except that there is no other category in which to put it.

— Marianne Moore

Nearly all men and women are poetical, to some extent, but very few can be called poets. There are great poets, small poets, and…

— Orson F. Whitney

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

— Jeffrey McDaniel

New voices in an old art - and women poets have been that for much more than a century - do not diminish the…

— Eavan Boland

Poets... are literal-minded men who will squeeze a word till it hurts.

— Archibald MacLeish

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

Poets, in their way, are practical men; they are interested in results.

— Allen Tate

I don't think there is a need of the categorization 'woman writing'. I think in some sense writers lost their gender when they walk…

— Anita Nair

Lesbians are the poets of the humanity of women.

— Nicole Brossard

I think the term poet is a very exalted term and should be applied to a man at the end of his work. When…

— Leonard Cohen

All men are poets at heart.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson