Poetry Quote by James W. Pennebaker

“It makes me wonder if living under tragic circumstances inflects a person's sentences, irresistibly, with poetry.”

— Sara Baume

“SUICIDE can be considered an act of MURDER committed on ONESELF”

— Kamil Ali

“A poet is for poetry Not for you and me.”

— Rahman Mostafiz

“Writing is hard, but I don’t want to kill myself trying to write. Not unless I’m writing a suicide note.”

— Jarod Kintz

“As for expressing nobody-but-yourself in words, that means working just a little harder than anybody who isn’t a poet can possibly imagine. Why? Because…

— E.E. Cummings

“(I also occasionally write poems, after first explaining carefully to the audience and myself that I am not a poet and this is not…

— T. Kingfisher

Suicide is, after all, the opposite of the poem.

— Anne Sexton

“Quoting oneself is the writer's selfie.”

— Andrew Craven

“How do you write about something, even something real and painful-like suicide-when all of the writing that's been done on that subject has robbed…

— Jeffrey Eugenides The Marriage Plot

“To write poetry and to commit suicide, apparently so contradictory, had really been the same, attempts at escape. And my feelings, at the end…

— John Fowles

“A true poet writes from the language and experiences of their own heart, not those of others.”

— Suzy Kassem

In the current socio-political climate, he said to himself, committing suicide is absurd and redundant. Better to become an undercover poet.

— Roberto Bolano