“Sappho is a great poet because she is a lesbian, which gives her erotic access to the Muse. Sappho and the homosexual-tending Emily Dickinson stand alone above women poets, because poetry's mystical energies are ruled by a hierach requiring the sexual subordination of her petitioners. Women have achieved more as novelists than as poets because the social novel operates outside the ancient marriage of myth and eroticism.” GivingEnergySocialNovelPoetAncientMythAccessNovelistsMuseMysticalHomosexualEroticStand AloneEmilyGreat PoetSubordination Author:Camille Paglia
“Genius, that power which constitutes a poet; that quality without which judgment is cold, and knowledge is inert; that energy which collects, combines, amplifies and animates.” EnergyQualityPoetColdGeniusJudgmentAmplify Book:Lives of the Most Eminent English Poets Source: Lives of the Most Eminent English Poets
“It has as much to do with the energy released by linguistic fission and fusion, with the buoyancy generated by cadence and tone and rhyme and stanza, as it has to do with the poem's concerns or the poet's truthfulness.” EnergyPoetConcernToneRhymeTruthfulnessFusionCadenceBuoyancyFission Book:Opened Ground: Selected Poems, 1966-1996 Source: Opened Ground: Selected Poems, 1966-1996