Top 33 Women Poets Quotes
#1. 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 and my body are one.
Alicia Suskin Ostriker
#2. The category "Women Poets" is bizarre and irrelevant. It's a subcategory of Poets, but there is not a "Men Poets" category.
Vanna Bonta
#3. Refined and delicate natures understand the cat. Women, poets, and artists hold it in great esteem, for they recognize the exquisite delicacy of its nervous system; indeed, only coarse natures fail to discern the natural distinction of the cat.
Champfleury
#4. I don't think it's by accident that I was first attracted to translating two French women poets.
Marilyn Hacker
#5. With women poets we look at or into, but not up at, sacred things; we unlearn submission.
Alicia Suskin Ostriker
#6. I feel that women of my kind are a profound mistake. There have been few women poets of distinction, and, if we count only the suicides of Sappho, Lawrence Hope and Charlotte Mew, their despair rate has been very high.
Anna Wickham
#7. When I became a poet, the Korean literary world expected women poets to sing passively of love. Naturally, this was not written anywhere, but this rule existed nonetheless. Consequently, I received plenty of serious criticism.
Kim Hyesoon
#8. When you educate yourself about clitoredectomies, infibulation, forced prostitution, rape as a war tactic, patriarchal religions, women painters, filmmakers, poets, writers, activists, politicians, sex-industry workers, historians, archelogoists and musicians, that's self-protection.
Inga Muscio
#9. Poems are like dreams: in them you put what you don't know you know.
Adrienne Rich
#11. love is myself in the mirror.
i will see love every time.
AVA.
#12. The faint hints of color in her complexion, her tawny blond hair, her extraordinary thinness, all spoke of that unearthly grace modern poets find in the medieval statues. Had she been happy, she'd have been ravishing: happiness constitutes pure poetry, for women.
Honore De Balzac
#13. Love wasn't the soft, silky words the poets spoke of. Love,with it's twin edges, was the one factor that weakened so many women, that pushed them to compromised their own wants, their own needs for the needs and wants of another.
Nora Roberts
#14. Most people don't have real friends. You have people in your life waiting for opportunities to see what YOU can do for them.
Brandi L. Bates
#15. O woman! thou wert fashioned to beguile:
So have all sages said, all poets sung.
Jean Ingelow
#16. SOME YEARS, like some poets,and politicians and some lovely women, are singled out for fame far beyond the common lot, and 1929 was clearly such a year.
John Kenneth Galbraith
#19. O cloud-pale eyelids, dream-dimmed eyes,
The poets labouring all their days
To build a perfect beauty in rhyme
Are overthrown by a woman's gaze ...
William Butler Yeats
#20. I do not think men have more talent. There are a great many women in the arts; novelists, painters, sculptors, poets-but the proportion is far lower in the field of song writing.
Dorothy Fields
#21. On Memorial Day, I don't want to only remember the combatants. There were also those who came out of the trenches as writers and poets, who started preaching peace, men and women who have made this world a kinder place to live.
Eric Burdon
#22. So when you inhale and exhale, notice your breath and realize God is dwelling in your chest.
Trinka Polite
#23. The public is probably more suspicious of poets than women, and maybe for good reason.
Billy Collins
#24. Women have burnt like beacons in all the works of all the poets from the beginning of time.
Virginia Woolf
#25. I think one of the things that language poets are very involved with is getting away from conventional ideas of beauty, because those ideas contain a certain attitude toward women, certain attitudes toward sex, certain attitudes toward race, etc.
Diane Wakoski
#26. We poets would die of loneliness but for women, and we choose our men friends that we may have somebody to talk about women with. Letter to Olivia Shakespeare, 1936
William Butler Yeats
#27. and stars sang like crickets in the dropping dusk and were.
Agnes McDonald
#28. All literature up to today is sexist. The Muses never sang to the poets about liberated women. It's the same old chanson from the Bible and Homer through Joyce and Proust.
Allan Bloom
#29. Some of what we read in classical literature is not relative to our condition, but then many women novelists and poets have turned it upside down and told the stories from the other point of view.
Margaret Drabble
#30. I have heard that hysterical women say
They are sick of the palette and fiddle-bow,
Of poets that are always gay
William Butler Yeats
#31. I have never studied the art of paying compliments to women; but I must say that if all that has been said by orators and poets since the creation of the world in praise of women were applied to the women of America, it would not do them justice for their conduct during this war.
Abraham Lincoln
#32. Failures of nerve and energy are not permitted. That's what it means to be an object.
Mary Kinzie
#33. In a way, women were asking for men to be poets and driving, passionate lovers at the same time.
Robert James Waller
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