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.

— Richard Eberhart

Poetry is a beautiful way of expressing feelings - happy, sad, angry, caring. It's also a way that we share with other people, to…

— Mattie Stepanek

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

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

— Dylan Thomas

I have always thought of poems as stepping stones in one's own sense of oneself. Every now and again, you write a poem that…

— Seamus Heaney

The point of poetry is to be acutely discomforting, to prod and provoke, to poke us in the eye, to punch us in the…

— Paul Muldoon

“Poetry is a way of expressing your thoughts, feelings, and your emotions, it's how you go through life in your own special way of…

— Anonymous

What poetry is asking us to accept can be difficult. Our proximity to our mortality, the fragility of our existence, how close we live…

— Matthew Zapruder

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, above all, an approach to the truth of feeling.

— Muriel Rukeyser

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

Poetry is more than a form of art. It's a vibration and a pulsing heart. Whether it's sour or whether it's sweet. It can…

— Stanley Victor Paskavich