Bullets Quote by Ted Hughes

“Only in Russia poetry is respected – it gets people killed. Is there anywhere else where poetry is so common a motive for murder?”

— Osip Mandelstam

Inside every man there is a poet who died young.

— Stefan Kanfer

“A poet could kill the dead.”

— Cameron Conaway

“A man is lying under machine-gun fire on a street in an embattled city. He looks at the pavement and sees a very amusing…

— Czesław Miłosz

“If poetry dies, nothing lives !”

— Vihang A. Naik

“To write poetry and to commit suicide, apparently so contradictory, had really been the same, attempts at escape. And my feelings, at the end…

— John Fowles

“There are horrible events going on all over the world. Human beings are really fucking up. Poets, we can’t just write poems. We have…

— Jeremiah Walton

Suffering has as much right to be expressed as a martyr has to cry out. So it may have been false to say that…

— Theodor Adorno

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

— Mary Stewart

“So Mr. Pizarsky had been a poet? That was how he’d said it: “I was a poet." As if the poet had died. He…

— Helen Oyeyemi

“A dead poet is better than one that's alive”

— Aaron Ozee

“I do not know how it is elsewhere, but here, in this country, poetry is a healing, life-giving thing, and people have not lost…

— Osip Mandelstam