Death Quote by Jeremy Limn

Poetry is composing for the breath.

— Peter Davison

“Poetry is thoughts that breath and words that burn.”

— Thomas Grey

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

— Mary Stewart

“Poetry, playing with your words until you breathe life into them.”

— Morgan Dragonwillow

Poetry's medium is not merely light as air, it is air: vital and deep as ordinary breath.

— Robert Pinsky

“The Poet Asks His Love to Write" Visceral love, living death, in vain, I wait your written word, and consider, with the flower that…

— Federico García Lorca

“Poetry comes to me like breathing. I inhale and breathe in the fragrances, flavors, emotions, sentiments, and feelings of people and places and breathe…

— Avijeet Das

“Poetry is a finikin thing of air That lives uncertainly and not for long Yet radiantly beyond much lustier blurs.”

— Wallace Stevens

Poetry is a life-cherishing force.

— Mary Oliver

We write poems / as leaves give oxygen - / so we can breathe.

— Erica Jong

“A poet, you see, is a light thing, and winged and holy, and cannot compose before he gets inspiration and loses control of his…

— Plato

In a lethal world, poetry is necessary for survival.

— Mary Caroline Richards