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.
But no artist, I now realize, can be satisfied with art alone. There is a natural craving for recognition which cannot be gain-said.
Eleanor was right. She never looked nice. She looked like art, and art wasn't supposed to look nice; it was supposed to make you feel something.
To chart a course, one must have a direction. In reality, the eye is no better than the philosophy behind it. The photographer creates, evolves a better, a more selective, more acute seeing eye by looking ever more sharply at what is going on in the world.
I have not lost any of my crazy, fearless, raw, soulful, eclectic side and I plan on continuing to tell universal stories in an unforgettable way.
For me painting is a dramatic action in the course of which reality finds itself split apart
To me, Godard did to movies what Bob Dylan did to music: they both revolutionized their forms.
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