Death Quote by Robert Kroestch

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

— Ursula K. Le Guin

“Poetry will die when love and pain cease to exist.”

— Kellie Elmore

“Dying can be quite the career move for a young poet.”

— Khaled Hosseini

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

— Maurice Maeterlinck

“You want to be a poet and not die.”

— Erica Jong

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

— Carl McKever

“A poet could kill the dead.”

— Cameron Conaway

“Death was everywhere. Death was everything. Career. Desire. Dream. Poetry. Love. Youth itself. Dying became just another way of living.”

— Arundhati Roy

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

— Alice Notley

“Poetry is dying first. It'll be absorbed into prose sooner or later.”

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

“had seen enough such deaths before to know that when the cloud of sorrow hangs too heavily over a person, nothing helps; no love,…

— Juliet Marillier

“Every time your work is read, you die several deaths for every word, and poetry is like being flayed alive.”

— Mary Stewart