Crafts Quote by Carolyn Kizer

“Poets are interested primarily in death and commas. ”

— Carolyn Kizer

“Poets find their voices when they articulate the wishes of the dead, especially those slain as sacrificial talismans to a larger frame of existence.”

— Michael S. Harper

I like to think of poetry as statements made on the way to the grave.

— Dylan Thomas

The poets are the standard bearers of language. Their work lives or dies word by word. When I write and can hear a clunky…

— Janet Fitch

Poems in a way are spells against death. They are milestones, to see where you were then from where you are now.

— Richard Eberhart

I think there are different kinds of poetry for different stages of life and there's the wild, exuberance of youth, there's the painful agony…

— Edward Hirsch

... what is great poetry, after all, but the continuation of the human voice after death?

— Erica Jong

Poets by Death are conquer'd but the wit Of poets triumphs over it.

— Abraham Cowley

Poets never die, I thought. They just fail in the end.

— Rick Yancey

“I believe that poems die the moment they are outwardly expressed.”

— Maurice Maeterlinck

Certainly the modern poets I cherish most are disturbing spirits; they do not come to coo.

— Stanley Kunitz

The theme of Death is to Poetry what Mistaken Identity is to Drama.

— Dannie Abse