Death Quote by Emily Dickinson

“Poet, teach us to love our dying.”

— Robert Kroestch

“I shall die. I shall no longer feel the agonies which now consume me, or be the prey of feelings unsatisfied, yet unquenched ...…

— Mary Shelley

“When I die, poetry shall sit beside me!”

— Carl McKever

O ye dead Poets, who are living still Immortal in your verse, though life be fled, And ye, O living Poets, who are dead…

— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

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

— Khaled Hosseini

“ This morning, on the avenue, my death was walking next to me, under the plane-trees. I came back home, lied on the bed.…

— Christian Bobin

“ When I Am Dead, My Dearest When I am dead, my dearest, Sing no sad songs for me; Plant thou no roses at…

— Christina Rossetti

“A poet could kill the dead.”

— Cameron Conaway

“Yes, death. Death must be so beautiful. To lie in the soft brown earth, with the grasses waving above one's head, and listen to…

— Oscar Wilde

“The reality of death has come upon us and a consciousness of the power of God has broken our complacency like a bullet in…

— Flannery O'Connor

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

— Maurice Maeterlinck

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

— Ursula K. Le Guin