Poetry Quote by Anna Akhmatova

“We pass and leave you lying. No need for rhetoric, for funeral music, for melancholy bugle-calls. No need for tears now, no need for…

— Richard Aldington

“Sorrow with me, Sorrowful one! Tell me, whose voice proclaims Things true and sad, Naming by all their old, unhappy names, What drove me…

— Aeschylus

“At night they emerge from the water, stalking over the grassy field, leaving bits of themselves on the ground. They gather at my bedside…

— Lee Thomas

“Men with names never truly die. It is only the nameless and faceless who vanish like smoke into the early morning air.”

— Edwidge Dandicat

“There are a whole lot of things whose names I do not know and I’d like to tell you about them in the sky…

— Aimé Césaire

“It's as if all the beauties of the world were put there like an ornament to make us forget death!”

— Mehmet Murat ildan

“I must stop remembering. I must keep them in a faraway place. The more I remember, the greater my agony. These thoughts stuttered in…

— Sonali Deraniyagala

“Together they listed the people they had known who had died on the mountains. A bleak conversation to have, thought Margrét, but there was…

— Hannah Kent

“There are some griefs so loud They could bring down the sky, And there are griefs so still None knows how deep they lie,…

— May Sarton

“Whenever I cry over losing them, I cry because I don't have any memories of them”

— Marie Lu

“I miss my own and I mourn for everyone else's, because I'd like to love them, but I don't know who they are.”

— Isaac Marion

“We see our friends are round us falling. We see them buried deep in dust. In solemn silence yet they're calling. Prepare for death,…

— Leander Watts