Body Quote by Virginia Woolf

“...who shall measure the heat and violence of a poet's heart when caught and tangled in a woman's body?”

— Virginia Woolf

Limbs of a dismembered poet.

— Horace

“Poetry is best written with the growl and the gut. The heart and the head should be the realm to the reader.”

— Jeremy Young

Poetry, the genre of purest beauty, was born of a truncated woman: her head severed from her body with a sword, a symbolic penis.

— Andrea Dworkin

I believe the poet shouldn't be in the poem at all except as a lens or as ears.

— Alice Oswald

In the love poetry of every age, the woman longs to be weighed down by the man's body.

— Milan Kundera

“all they want to do is tie the poem to a chair with rope and torture a confession out of it. They begin beating…

— Billy Collins

“Her profile as well as her stature and bearing seemed to gain the more dignity from her plain garments, which by the side of…

— George Eliot

“The linen felt perilously thin between them, and she could feel the well-muscled contours of his chest and thighs and... and that obscene dagger…

— Glynnis Campbell

“In the midst of this overwhelming sunset, the image of Hatsumi flashed into my mind, and in that moment I understood what that tremor…

— Haruki Murakami

“So when the soul of the poet has come to ripeness of thought, she detaches and sends away from it its poems or songs,—a…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

“The Woman Poet // Die Dichterin You hold me now completely in your hands. My heart beats like a frightened little bird's Against your…

— Gertrud Kolmar