Poetry Quote by Sherman Alexie

“A poet could kill the dead.”

— Cameron Conaway

“We call a cancer bad, they would say, because it kills a man; but you might just as well call a successful surgeon bad…

— C. S. Lewis

“It was just the human fatality of things, a cancer worse than blame, or hate or love.”

— Henry Miller

“I could feel everybody watching us, wondering what was wrong with us, and whether it would kill us, and how heroic my mom must…

— John Green

“The truth is: nobody bothers to kill poets in America. It's enough to buy them in universities. Undead.”

— Erica Jong

“It's very hard not to commit cancer suicide in America.”

— Jonathan Ames

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

— Mary Stewart

“Labels make death and disease easier to handle. They apply makeup to tragedy’s face.”

— Meredith Blevins

“Emphatically, no killers are we. Poets never kill.”

— Vladimir Nabokov

“What is more dangerous than to become a poet? which is, as some say, an incurable and infectious disease.”

— Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

“Cancer is like a terrorist attack from within. You’re going along, doing your thing, you know the threat of cancer exists theoretically, but you’re…

— Jessica Queller

“You've heard it all right. People don't have cancer: They are reported to be battling cancer.”

— Christopher Hitchens