Death Quote by A. H. Septimius

“Remember, words are the enemy of poetry.”

— Russell Edson

“We have only one story. All novels, all poetry are built on the never-ending contest in ourselves of good and evil.”

— John Steinbeck

“As if bad poetry could ever save anyone.”

— Sally Warner

“For poetry makes nothing happen: it survives In the valley of its making where executives Would never want to tamper, flows on south From…

— W.H. Auden

“I know poetry is not dead, nor genius lost; nor has Mammon gained power over either, to bind or slay: they will both assert…

— Charlotte Brontë

“You want to be a poet and not die.”

— Erica Jong

“And I'm not a poet: but never despair! I'll madly live the poems I shall never write.”

— Aldous Huxley

“I guess I have no choice But to toss all novels under the rug Nothing can compete with the poetry bug”

— Maddy Kobar

“Poetry is so unique and it doesn't compromise.”

— Euginia Herlihy

“Blame the poets. It’s easier to stir people to rebellion if they think they’re on the side of a demigod or some chosen one.…

— Maggie Stiefvater

“A poet need not trouble himself if he lies. He lies only in the matter of love, as the regions of the heart are…

— Mahmoud Darwish

“Let’s not be too harsh where poets are concerned. They have to live in no-man’s-land, halfway between dreams and reality.”

— Arthur Gordon