Body Quote by Ntozake Shange

Hang yourself, poet, in your own words. Otherwise, you are dead.

— Langston Hughes

Writing poems is my way of celebrating with the world that I have not committed suicide the evening before.

— Alice Walker

I like poems you can tack all over with a hammer and there are no hollow places.

— John Ashbery

I'm really into poetry.

— Grace Potter

Every poem should remind the reader that they are going to die.

— Anonymous

“Leaves will fall, cold will creep in A circle of life that ends where it begins It may take a thousand years and a…

— Ryan Winfield

I write poetry in order to live more fully.

— Judith Rodriguez

I'd better be a poet Or lay down dead.

— Jack Kerouac

I've always wanted to write poems and nothing else.

— Mary Oliver

I hope to go into a poem sober and come out a little drunk. And if I do then that's a real poem.

— Dannie Abse

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

Well, if this is poetry, I'm certainly never going to write any myself.

— James Schuyler