Dead Quote by Ivy Compton-Burnett

“A poet could kill the dead.”

— Cameron Conaway

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

— Amy King

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

— Maurice Maeterlinck

“A dead poet is better than one that's alive”

— Aaron Ozee

“If poetry dies, nothing lives !”

— Vihang A. Naik

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

— Mary Stewart

“You want to be a poet and not die.”

— Erica Jong

“The only good writer was a dead writer.”

— John Steinbeck

“On the contrary I am not a poet, I am just a writer who happens to write poetry.”

— Kenneth G. Ortiz

“First learn to write as if you were already dead and then you will learn to write as if you were still alive.”

— Niccolo Tucci

“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

“A writer who isn't writing isn't really alive.”

— Robin McKinley