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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.

The public is probably more suspicious of poets than women, and maybe for good reason.

If we mean to have heroes, statesmen and philosophers, we should have learned women.

Nearly all men and women are poetical, to some extent, but very few can be called poets. There are great poets, small poets, and men and women who make verses. But all are not poets, nor even good versifiers. Poetasters are plentiful, but real poets are rare. Education can not make a poet, though it may polish and develop one.

Poets, in their way, are practical men; they are interested in results.

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.

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

Most mothers are instinctive philosophers.

Women do not often fall in love with philosophers.