Quotes by Women Poets

From all the offspring of the earth and heaven love is the most precious.

How sweet is harmless solitude!
What can its joys control?
Tumults and noise may not intrude,
To interrupt the soul.

Some day your head won't find my lap so easily. Trust is a habit you'll soon break.

Imtiaz Dharker
Imtiaz Dharker
Now that Fate
Has brought me what so long, I so desired,
It is too late,
I am too tired.

And if my heart isn't in my mouth it's because it knows its place.

The tribal attitude said, and continues to say, that Gay people are especially empowered because we are able to identify with both sexes and can see into more than one world at once, having the capacity to see from more than one point of view at a time. And that is also an Indian way of seeing.

What is it our mammas bewitches
To plague us little boys with breeches?

This is the divine moment when we can hold the fairest blossom of spring in one hand and the sweetest flowers of early summer in the other.

I saw the radiant Queen of Night
Walking in brightness through the sky...

We are no more content to plod along the beaten paths - and so marriage must go the way of God.

Amy Levy
Amy Levy
Thou tyrant whom I will not name,
Whom heaven and hell alike disclaim;
Abhorred and shunned, for different ends,
By angels, Jesuits, beasts and fiends!...
That wretch, if such a wretch there be,
Who hopes for happiness from thee,
May search successfully as well
For truth in whores and ease in hell.

Imagination is the bridge between
the things we know for sure
and the things we need to believe
When our world becomes unbearable.

Staceyann Chin
Staceyann Chin
He has achieved success who has lived well, laughed often, and loved much; who has enjoyed the trust of pure women, the respect of intelligent men, and the love of little children;…whose life was an inspiration, whose memory a benediction.

I love the sweet linnet, the lark, and the thrush, And the gold-throated blackbird with a song in each bush ; The finch and the robin, I love everyone, But not the pied magpie that's walking alone.

University students are rarely able to cope with universals and death is the most embarrassing universal.

So some unlucky Engineer Does all the fit Materials compound, That are in Art or Nature found; Will glorious Fire-Works prepare.

Since the journey is a metaphor - the most ambiguous and seductive of metaphors, we tell ourselves - it can also be born of immobility. There is no need to drag our bodies around so much, all dressed up. It's hot, there are flies, diseases. It is enough to close our eyes, seated on a chair in the shade, to float on the waves of imagination. Isn't that what books are there for?

Dacia Maraini
Dacia Maraini
The more a thing is torn,
the more places it can connect.

My mother raises rare blooms
and waters them with tea
her birth waters sang like rivers
my mother is now me.

The flowers withered,
Their color faded away,
While meaninglessly I spent my days in the world And the long rains were falling.

There are other tears, bright, clear, untroubled,
Shining as the sun, untouched of care.

Zabel Sibil Asadour
Zabel Sibil Asadour
Well, but the joy to see my works in print!
Myself too pictur'd in a mezzo-tint!

If you want to love
Do so
To the ends of the earth
With no shortcuts
Do so
As the crow flies.

My whole life, I had been taught to read and study, to seek understanding in knowledge of history, of cultures.

Meghan O'Rourke
Meghan O'Rourke
Do no sinful action, speak no angry word; ye belong to Jesus, children of the Lord.

Cecil Frances Alexander
Cecil Frances Alexander