These impossible women! How they do get around us! The poet was right: Can't live with them, or without them.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
The woman poet must be either a sexless, reclusive eccentric, with nothing to say specifically to women, or a brilliant, tragic, tortured suicide.
Women, can't live with them, can't live without them.
Women are treated as unjustly in poetry as in life. The feminine ones are not idealistic, and the idealistic not feminine.
The poet speaks to all men of that other life of theirs that they have smothered and forgotten.
Women - always in trouble with them, but can't live without them.
As far as I was concerned, it was the absence of women in the poetic tradition which allowed women in the poems to be simplified. The voice of a woman poet would, I was sure, have precluded such distortion. It did not exist.
The public is probably more suspicious of poets than women, and maybe for good reason.
The poets whom I knew then were all men and all seemed dauntingly sure of themselves - although I am sure that really they were as uncertain as I was.
Women do not have as great a need for poetry because their own essence is poetry.
There is one type of ideal woman very seldom described in poetry - the old maid, the woman whom sorrow or misfortune prevents from fulfilling her natural destiny.