Death Quote by Richard Eberhart

Poems in a way are spells against death. They are milestones, to see where you were then from where you are now. To perpetuate…

— Richard Eberhart

Poems are ways of saying you clearly remember the day of your death and your tomb. When I am writing poetry, I relive my…

— Kim Hyesoon

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

— Dylan Thomas

I believe in poetry as a way of surviving the emotional chaos, spiritual confusions, and traumatic events that come with being alive.

— Gregory Orr

Poetry is a release of something previously unknown into the visible. You write to invite that, to make of yourself a gathering of the…

— Jane Hirshfield

Poems seem to have a life of their own. They tell you when enough is enough.

— Thomas Lynch

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

Writing poetry is such an intense experience that it helps to start the process in a casual or wayward frame of mind.

— Edward Hirsch

Poetry is the art of understanding what it is to be alive.

— Archibald MacLeish

The poets are the standard bearers of language. Their work lives or dies word by word. When I write and can hear a clunky…

— Janet Fitch

Poets are always ahead of things in a certain way, their sense of language and their vision.

— Jim Jarmusch

Poetry is a type-font design for an alphabet of fun, hate, love, death.

— Carl Sandburg