Women do not have as great a need for poetry because their own essence is poetry.
Interpretation
Women embody poetic qualities inherent in their essence, reducing their need for external poetry.
This quote suggests that the intrinsic qualities of women—such as emotion, creativity, and beauty—are akin to poetry itself. As a result, they may not feel as strong a necessity for poetry as men do, because their very being encapsulates the depth and artistry often sought in poetic expression.
In practice
In a speech celebrating women's contributions to art and literature, you might quote this to highlight their innate creativity.
Prudishness is pretense of innocence without innocence. Women have to remain prudish as long as men are sentimental, dense, and evil enough to demand of them eternal innocence and lack of education. For innocence is the only thing which can ennoble lack of education.
A classical work doesn't ever have to be understood entirely. But those who are educated and who are still educating themselves must desire to learn more and more from it.
If you want to see mankind fully, look at a family. Within the family minds become organically one, and for this reason the family is total poetry.
He who does not become familiar with nature through love will never know her.
Religion can emerge in all forms of feeling: here wild anger, there the sweetest pain; here consuming hatred, there the childlike smile of serene humility.
A priest is he who lives solely in the realm of the invisible, for whom all that is visible has only the truth of an allegory.
The only music I don't like is bad music.
Adornment, what a science! Beauty, what a weapon! Modesty, what elegance!
The purpose of writing is both to keep up with life and to run ahead of it. I am little comfort to myself, although I am the only comfort I have, excepting perhaps streets, clouds, the sun, the faces and voices of kids and the aged, and similar accidents of beauty, innocence, truth and loneliness.
What inspires a poem for me is usually a moment.
Wearing clothes should be a personal narrative of emotion. I always respond to fashion in an emotional way.
A true musician, like Johnny Cash, should be able to walk into a room with nothing but an instrument and capture people's attention for two hours.
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