I desire Virtue, though I love her not- I have no faith in her when she is got: I fear that she will bind and make me slave And send me songless to t….

I feel that women of my kind are a profound mistake. There have been few women poets of distinction, and, if we count only the suicides of Sappho, La….

Kinder the enemy who must malign us Than the smug friend who will define us.

It is well within the order of things That man should listen when his mate sings; But the true male never yet walked Who liked to listen when his mat….

Desire and longing are the whips of God..