Poetry Quote by Jean Giraudoux

“Lake had no illusions about mortality. He knew that it made everyone perfectly equal, and that the treasures of the earth were movement, courage,…

— Mark Helprin

“A poet could kill the dead.”

— Cameron Conaway

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

— Ursula K. Le Guin

“...poets generally write as if they were dead.”

— Ivy Compton-Burnett

“oh each poet’s a beautiful human girl who must die.”

— Alice Notley

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

— Mary Stewart

“Maybe poetry took the life out of both of them, Idea and friendship.”

— Kenneth Koch

“As if bad poetry could ever save anyone.”

— Sally Warner

“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

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

— Cody Edward Lee Miller

“Poetry is a never ending journey.”

— Subrat Saurabh