Female Poets by Quote

Identify the women who wrote the famous line(s) of English-language verse below.

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Quote	Poet
"Hope" is the thing with feathers - / That perches in the soul -	Emily Dickinson
You may trod me in the very dirt / But still, like dust, I'll rise.	Maya Angelou
I love thee freely, as men strive for Right; / I love thee purely, as they turn from Praise.	Elizabeth Barrett Browning
I find this frenzy insufficient reason / For conversation when we meet again.	Edna St. Vincent Millay
Some view our sable race with scornful eye, / "Their colour is a diabolic dye."	Phillis Wheatley
She is a publick deity, / And were't not very odd / She should depose her self to be / A pretty household god?	Katherine Philips
Daddy, I have had to kill you.	Silvia Plath
We must not look at goblin men, / We must not buy their fruits	Christina Rossetti
If ever two were one, then surely we. / If ever man were loved by wife, then thee.	Anne Bradstreet
The art of losing isn't hard to master.	Elizabeth Bishop
The doubt of future foes exiles my present joy, / And wit me warns to shun such snares as threaten mine annoy; / For falsehood now doth flow, and subjects’ faith doth ebb, / Which should not be if reason ruled or wisdom weaved the web.	Queen Elizabeth I
We real cool. We / Left school. We / Lurk late. We / Strike straight.	Gwendolyn Brooks
Whirl up, sea— / whirl your pointed pines, / splash your great pines / on our rocks	H. D.
The change of color is likely and a difference a very little difference is prepared. Sugar is not a vegetable.	Gertrude Stein
A woman like that is not a woman, quite. / I have been her kind.	Anne Sexton