Female poets

I Hear the Words of Love | Horatius Bonar

Hannah Aizenman reflects on the poetry of Mary Oliver, who died on Thursday, that was published in The New Yorker.

I Worried - Mary Oliver #poetry #maryoliver #aesthetic

American writer, filmmaker, philosopher, teacher, and political activist. She mostly wrote essays, but also published novels; she published her first major work, the essay "Notes on 'Camp'", in 1964. Her best-known works include On Photography, Against Interpretation, Styles of Radical Will, The Way We Live Now, Illness as Metaphor, Regarding the Pain of Others, The Volcano Lover, and In America // photo by Jill Krementz, source: everyday-i-show.livejournal.com

colorized by Jecinci // Dickinson was an American poet. While Dickinson was a prolific private poet, fewer than a dozen of her nearly 1,800 poems were published during her lifetime. Her poems are unique for the era in which she wrote. A complete, and mostly unaltered, collection of her poetry became available for the first time when scholar Thomas H. Johnson published The Poems of Emily Dickinson in 1955 // source: facebook.com/jecinci

In honour of what would be Sylvia Plath's 81st birthday on Sunday, here are some of the saddest, loveliest, truest words ever written by her.

Oriana Fallaci

Louisa May Alcott

A poem related to a girl you like

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Who can forget Miss Havisham, withering away in her wedding dress after being jilted at the altar in Great Expectations? Or the fallen milkmaid in Hardy's Tess of the D'Urbervilles, doomed to a life of hardship and misery after she crossed paths with a caddish aristocrat?

Audre Lorde

WHEN WOMEN SPEAK IT IS MOSTLY POETRY

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