Courage Quote by James Lee Burke

The poet does not fear death, not because he believes in the fantasy of heroes, but because death constantly visits his thoughts and is…

— Salvatore Quasimodo

“The poets carry feelings, delivering desires and dispatching dreams. Even if sometimes they need pack some sorrows, distill several disappointments and filter strange nightmares.”

— Juliano Alves

“Poet, teach us to love our dying.”

— Robert Kroestch

“Here was the heart of dread. It was not fearsome. It was fetid, noxious, hopeless. A deep and exhausting misery, a crevasse so bottomless…

— Laura Tillman

“Poetry is emotional in nature and theatrical in operation.”

— Philip Larkin

We all fear loneliness, madness, dying. Shakespeare and Walt Whitman, Leopardi and Hart Crane will not cure those fears. And yet these poets bring…

— Harold Bloom

“And I feared that death picks up where life left off. An endless barrage of unbearable obstacles. A godforsaken terrain where lost souls find…

— Lydia Lunch

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

— Ursula K. Le Guin

“Poetry can be a form of restriction. Lock away tragedy inside pretty words. Quantify pieces of infinite love.”

— Cody Edward Lee Miller

“What I wanted to express very clearly and intensely was that the reason these people had to invent or imagine heroes and gods is…

— Frida Kahlo

“A poet is an unhappy being whose heart it torn by secret sufferings, but whose lips are so strangely formed that when the sighs…

— Søren Kierkegaard

“A poet could kill the dead.”

— Cameron Conaway