Dust Quote by Sylvia Plath

“Now, lying on my back in bed, I imagined Buddy saying, ‘Do you know what a poem is, Esther?’ ‘No, what?’ I would say.…

— Sylvia Plath

“Do you know what a poem is, Esther?' No, what?' I would say. A piece of dust.' Then, just as he was smiling and…

— Sylvia Plath

“I reckon a good poem lasts a whole lot longer than a hundred of those people put together.”

— Sylvia Plath

Earth to ashes. People to dust. And it's all because IN GOD WE TRUST.

— Anonymous

A few days ago Tan Casipo said to me, 'Some people come here with so much dust in their eyes it's unbearable to talk…

— Tim Ward

“A song can last long after the events and people in it are dust and dreams and gone.”

— Jodi Picoult

My mother, Abra, had taught me that all people are made from the same dust. When our days here are gone, all men and…

— Alice Hoffman

Some people have enough dust on their bibles to write damnation on it.

— Adrian Rogers

But writing poems and letters doesn't seem to do much good.

— Sylvia Plath

I've got to have something. I want to stop it all, the whole monumental grotesque joke, before it's too late. But writing poems and…

— Sylvia Plath

“Who will read these poems when the people are gone?”

— Dominic Owen Mallary

When I first became brave enough to tell people that I wrote poems, so many people would rave to me about Edna St. Vincent…

— Tracy K. Smith

Poems are other people's snapshots in which we see our own lives.

— Charles Simic

At times of crisis or distress, it's poems that people turn to. (Poetry) still has a power to speak to people's feelings, maybe in…

— Blake Morrison

If I were to die thinking that I'd written three poems that people might read after me, I would feel that I hadn't lived…

— Andrew Motion