If the poetry world celebrate its female stars at the true level of their productivity and influence, poetry would wind up being a largely female world, and the men would leave.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
The public is probably more suspicious of poets than women, and maybe for good reason.
If everybody became a poet the world would be much better. We would all read to each other.
Women are treated as unjustly in poetry as in life. The feminine ones are not idealistic, and the idealistic not feminine.
It's always good when women win things in fiction because it tends to be more male-dominated, unlike poetry, which is more equal.
Without poets, without artists, men would soon weary of nature's monotony.
Women make us poets, children make us philosophers.
Poets, in their way, are practical men; they are interested in results.
There has been a time on earth when poets had been young and dead and famous - and were men. But now the poet as the tragic child of grandeur and destiny had changed. The child of genius was a woman, now, and the man was gone.
Poetry being the sign of that which all men desire, even though the desire be unconscious, intensity of life or completeness of experience, the universality of its appeal is a matter of course.
Women do not have as great a need for poetry because their own essence is poetry.