Death Quote by John Keats

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

— Maurice Maeterlinck

“When I die, poetry shall sit beside me!”

— Carl McKever

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

— Ursula K. Le Guin

“ The War Sonnets: V . The Soldier If I should die, think only this of me: That there's some corner of a foreign…

— Rupert Brooke

“You want to be a poet and not die.”

— Erica Jong

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

— Ivy Compton-Burnett

“A poet could kill the dead.”

— Cameron Conaway

“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

“I say I think my poems now are finer than anything I've ever done; I only hope that is the judgement of a ruined…

— Samuel R. Delany

“We are all poets, really.”

— Walter Lowenfels

“I'm... like a poet hidden In the light of thought Singing hymns unbidden, Till the world is wrought To sympathy with hopes and fears…

— Percy Bysshe Shelley

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

— Alice Notley