Death Quote by Charles Bukowski

“I think there's a kind of desperate hope built into poetry now that one really wants, hopelessly, to save the world. One is trying…

— Anonymous

“You want to be a poet and you’re not. By the time you realize you’re not doomed, your life is going to be over…

— Tarryn Fisher

“A poem isn't a good poem, until you need it.”

— J. David Gray

“Life is a poem just waiting to be written, lift your pen and speak.”

— Susie Clevenger

“Poetry is not something you have to retire from”

— John Cooper Clarke

“the best poems it seems to me are written out of an ultimate need. and once the poem is written, the only need after…

— Charles Bukowski

“Poetry is dying first. It'll be absorbed into prose sooner or later.”

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

“You want to be a poet and not die.”

— Erica Jong

“Poetry doesn’t pay. But I need it. And so do you.”

— Cory Basil

“A poem isn't finished until it's heard.”

— Jade Foster

“Poetry, is a life long war waged against ineffable beauty.”

— Atticus Poetry

“no poet can know what his poem is going to be like until he has written it.”

— W.H. Auden