Death Quote by Joseph Brodsky

“A dead poet is better than one that's alive”

— Aaron Ozee

A life is not sufficiently elevated for poetry, unless, of course, the life has been made into an art.

— Mark Strand

I find that in a novel I can get more of life, perhaps not such intense life, but certainly more of life than in…

— Sylvia Plath

I think there are different kinds of poetry for different stages of life and there's the wild, exuberance of youth, there's the painful agony…

— Edward Hirsch

Poetry creates life; Science dissects death.

— Frederick William Robertson

Best thing to happen for a poet. A fine death, no? An impressive death.

— Jorge Luis Borges

That is the saddest thing about being a writer. We die in ways you cannot fathom just to keep someone alive in our poetry.

— Needa Muy

If creating life is art, then living and dying must be poetry.

— Bethany Jane Andrews Hoey

The theme of Death is to Poetry what Mistaken Identity is to Drama.

— Dannie Abse

Every moment of life is the last, every poem is a death poem.

— Matsuo Basho

I like to think of poetry as statements made on the way to the grave.

— Dylan Thomas

Poetry at least in my own life, is really about your own mortality. Everything in poetry makes me think of my mortality. It is…

— Keith Carter