Poetry Quote by Aaron Ozee

“A poet could kill the dead.”

— Cameron Conaway

“If poetry dies, nothing lives !”

— Vihang A. Naik

“ASK NOT IF POETRY IS DEAD, ASK HOW YOU CAN LIVE FOR POETRY.”

— Amy King

“It is not death that allows us to understand each other, but poetry.”

— Ursula K. Le Guin

“...poets generally write as if they were dead.”

— Ivy Compton-Burnett

Written poetry is worth reading once, and then should be destroyed. Let the dead poets make way for others.

— Antonin Artaud

“Every time your work is read, you die several deaths for every word, and poetry is like being flayed alive.”

— Mary Stewart

Here let dead poetry rise once more to life.

— Dante Alighieri

“oh each poet’s a beautiful human girl who must die.”

— Alice Notley

A poet must have died as a man before he is worth anything as a poet.

— Christian Morgenstern

“Dying can be quite the career move for a young poet.”

— Khaled Hosseini

“You want to be a poet and not die.”

— Erica Jong