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“O woman! thou wert fashioned to beguile: So have all sages said, all poets sung.”

Said Women Poet Sage

Book:The Poetical Works of Jean Ingelow

Source: The Poetical Works of Jean Ingelow

“O cloud-pale eyelids, dream-dimmed eyes, The poets labouring all their days To build a perfect beauty in rhyme Are overthrown by a woman's gaze.”

Dream Eye Poetry Women Perfect Beauty Poet Clouds Poetry Is Pale Rhyme Eyelids Perfect Beauty

Book:The Collected Poems of W. B. Yeats

Source: The Collected Poems of W. B. Yeats

“Women are not supposed to have uteruses, especially in poems.”

Poetry Women Poet Uterus

Author:Maxine Kumin

“A beautiful woman is a practical poet, taming her savage mate, planting tenderness, hope and eloquence in all whom she approaches.”

Beautiful Hope Women Poet Approach Practicals Mates Tenderness Savages Beautiful Women Eloquence Taming

Book:Culture, Behavior, Beauty

Source: Culture, Behavior, Beauty

“In the beginning, said a Persian poet Allah took a rose, a lily, a dove, a serpent, a little honey, a Dead Sea apple, and a handful of clay. When he looked at the amalgram it was a woman.”

Littles Said Women Sea Poet Rose Apples Honey Clay Handful Lilies Dove Serpent Persian

Book:Selected Writings

Source: Selected Writings

“Who shall measure the hat and violence of the poet's heart when caught and tangled in a woman's body?”

Men Heart Body Hate Women Violence Poet Caught Hats Tangled Women's Bodies

Author:Virginia Woolf

“I am a Woman Phenomenally. Phenomenal Woman, that's me.”