Anon Quote by Virginia Woolf

“Anon, who wrote so many poems without signing them, was often a woman.”

— Virginia Woolf

When, however, one reads of a witch being ducked, of a woman possessed by devils, of a wise woman selling herbs, or even a…

— Virginia Woolf

“When, however, one reads of a witch being ducked, of a woman possessed by devils, of a wise woman selling herbs, or even of…

— Virginia Woolf

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

— Jeffrey McDaniel

She was not a poet. She was a poem.

— Deborah Levy

“Some day there will be girls and women whose name will no longer signify merely an opposite of the masculine, but something in itself,…

— Rainer Maria Rilke

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

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

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

— Jason Reynolds

“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

“If you read every poem in every anthology of Greek poetry, you wouldn't read one poem in which a character of the woman who's…

— Kathy Acker

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

— Aja Monet