Marriage Quote by Virginia Woolf

“Imaginatively she is of the highest importance; practically she is completely insignificant. She pervades poetry from cover to cover; she is all but absent…

— Virginia Woolf

“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

“My own luck was being born white and middle-class into a house full of books, with a father who encouraged me to read and…

— Adrienne Rich

“The faint hints of color in her complexion, her tawny blond hair, her extraordinary thinness, all spoke of that unearthly grace modern poets find…

— Honoré de Balzac

“The day came when she discovered sex, sensuality, and literature; she said, 'I submit! Let my life be henceforth ruled by poetry. Let me…

— Roman Payne

A beautiful woman is a practical poet.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

The woman poet must be either a sexless, reclusive eccentric, with nothing to say specifically to women, or a brilliant, tragic, tortured suicide.

— Marilyn Hacker

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

— Alicia Ostriker

“She was simple, not being able to adorn herself, but she was unhappy, as one out of her class; for women belong to no…

— Guy de Maupassant

She was not a poet. She was a poem.

— Deborah Levy

“For me,” she wrote, “poetry is an evasion from the real job of writing prose.” Throughout”

— Sylvia Plath

“The poet's nature is all searching, creator and nourisher of desire; the poet is like the heart in a people's breast, a people without…

— Sir Muhammad Iqbal Allama Iqbal