“A poet looks at the world the way a man looks at a woman.”
“A man to whom a woman cannot look up, she cannot love. Yet, it is marvelous how a woman contrives to find something to look up to in a man.”
“A woman has to look good, but a man—a little bit nicer looking than a monkey is enough.”
“There is no pain on this earth like seeing the same woman look at another man the way she once looked at you.”
“Songs of myselfI am the poet of the Body and I am the poet of the Soul, The pleasures of heaven are with me and the pains of hell are with me, The first I graft and increase upon myself, the latter I translate into new tongue. I am the poet of the woman the same as the man, And I say it is as great to be a woman as to be a man,..”