Women Poetry Quotes: top 68 famous quotes about Women Poetry

Women Poetry Quotes & Sayings

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Women are not supposed to have uteruses, especially in poems. — Maxine Kumin

Since she's discovered
men would rather drown
than nibble,
she does just
fine. — Rita Dove

Find the beauty in everyone and everything, everyday!
Roxanne Catherine Mapp — Roxanne Catherine Mapp

Reading poetry gives me a sense of calm, well-being, and love for humanity - the same stuff more flexible women get from yoga. — J. Courtney Sullivan

She is yet like a diamond on a heap of broken glass. — Mina Loy

You and those shot-glass eyes, deep swirling pools of 80-proof firewater, with the depth and profundity of Saturn's spinning pulsars ... — Brandi L. Bates

and stars sang like crickets in the dropping dusk and were. — Agnes McDonald

It was actually a women's writing group I belonged to in graduate school that gave me the courage to move from poetry to fiction. — Mary Gordon

I ain't scared to lend a hand
I ain't scared to clench it either — Mie Hansson

Love is an irrational force, making humans do all sorts of strange and wonderful things like write poetry and take up the ukulele. — Amy Dickinson

do not let anyone in
until they love you so fiercely,
you have no defense against their love. — AVA.

Haunted by demons of the past, hounded by demons not yet met, the nevermore and evermore left her little peace." ~A Tale of Two Women — Kimberly Kinrade

Some women marry houses. — Anne Sexton

Elegant writers depict intricacy with simplicity. — Coco J. Ginger

Embrace your inner goddess, never let go of the light you carry within. — Cynthia Dougherty-Bernal

Hasten Little Maiden
...
stop and listen
for pearls of wisdom
stop and listen
as the river glistens ... — Muse

In the world, it will be women, mostly colored and poor. women will have to bury children, and support themselves through grief. — Suheir Hammad

i sometimes think i'm too in love with alone.
who could i love more than this peace? — AVA.

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

A man does not become a real man by showing his physical domination over women. A man becomes a real man by loving, respecting and protecting women. — Avijeet Das

I love women whose hidden desires make horses put an end to their lives at the threshold — Mahmoud Darwish

Why should it happen that among the great many women whom I see and am fond of, suddenly somebody I meet for half an hour opens the door into poetry? — May Sarton

i am a woman
and i am alone,
and i cannot tell
which one of the two
i love being more. — AVA.

Anyone who has no need of anybody but himself is either a beast or a God.
Aristotle — Bruce Wayne Sullivan

Women have burnt like beacons in all the works of all the poets from the beginning of time. — Virginia Woolf

The window of her sadness was so vast that it almost opened a path to her soul. — Ondjaki

Women are like beautiful flowers. Only when you love them and take good care of them will they fully bloom into the beautiful flowers that they are. — Avijeet Das

things keep falling in and out of place.
this is the universe's way of taking care of me. — AVA.

When a man has many women in his life to cater to, one of them is bound to come last. — Terry A. O'Neal

I'm very sensual and very rhythm-oriented and into poetry. Women can feel that. — Steven Tyler

I wonder how many women are held up in their bed waiting to be sung to, served wine to, read poetry to, kissed slowly with. — Brandon Villasenor

Power within
A wiser woman kin
I cannot give her
The proper word
She is worth so much more
She is the one that should be adored — Maddy Kobar

A maidenhead, the virgin's trouble
Is well-compare-d to a bubble
on a navigable river
Soon 'tis touched t'is gone forever — John Clare

For women, then, poetry is not a luxury. It is a vital necessity of our existence. — Audre Lorde

It costs me never a stab nor squirm / To tread by chance upon a worm. / Aha, my little dear, / I say, Your clan will pay me back one day. — Dorothy Parker

Poems are like dreams: in them you put what you don't know you know. — Adrienne Rich

Women do not have as great a need for poetry because their own essence is poetry. — Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

When I try to achieve greatness, it spits on me the night before. — Monroe Ariel

You can learn more by going to the opera than you ever can by reading Emerson. Like that there are two sexes. — David Markson

Failures of nerve and energy are not permitted. That's what it means to be an object. — Mary Kinzie

He remembers which sister
I like least and asks
how she is doing.
(lines 9-11 of the poem 'Divorce') — Carrie Etter

It's always good when women win things in fiction because it tends to be more male-dominated, unlike poetry, which is more equal. — Carol Ann Duffy

love is myself in the mirror.
i will see love every time. — AVA.

i act harder than i am.
i am softer than i look. — AVA.

You are the Worst Kind of Animal. A Butcher by Day and a Pussy Cat by Night. — Monroe Ariel

Woman is the light of God. — Jalaluddin Rumi

She wasn't very
interesting
but few people
are. — Charles Bukowski

The most procession that ever comes to a man in this world is a women's heart. — Josiah G Holland AKA Timothy Titcomb

Women invented misery,
but we don't understand it. — Rita Dove

Happiness is the inner poetry of women, just as fine clothes are the mask of beauty — Honore De Balzac

Women are treated as unjustly in poetry as in life. The feminine ones are not idealistic, and the idealistic not feminine. — Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

At certain times, men regard poetry merely as a bright flame, but to women it was, and always will be, a warm fire. — Franz Grillparzer

Everywhere the poems open. — Mary Kinzie

Women like poetry. A soft word in their ears and they melt - a grease spot on the grass. — Mary Ann Shaffer

So when you inhale and exhale, notice your breath and realize God is dwelling in your chest. — Trinka Polite

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

It takes one a long time to become young. - Picasso — Patsy Asuncion

Beware women grown
old
who were never
anything but
young — Charles Bukowski

Women who have been disappeared by violence are howling. The voices of disappeared women are echoing. I sing with these voices. — Kim Hyesoon

I am born with WINGS, that is my DESTINY'..
says the butterfly..
'Just let me come into my own'... — Abha Maryada Banerjee

Passion for survival is the great theme of women's poetry. — Adrienne Rich

The death of a beautiful woman is, unquestionably, the most poetical topic in the world. — Edgar Allan Poe

Sand lines my soul which is filled with the breath of the ocean. — A.D. Posey

Love, the poet said, is woman's whole existence. — Virginia Woolf

She was mined for the children
in her, one daughter, then another,
a short seam, quick to clay,
and not a single son to save them. — Robert Wrigley

Women who are inclined to write poetry at all are inspired by being mad at something. — Amy Clampitt

Women are beautifully created without a woman you wouldn't know how to be a man — Martellis Thurmand

show me all the parts of you
that you do not love
so i know where to begin. — AVA.