Dies Quote by William Carlos Williams

It is difficult to get the news from poems, yet men die miserably every day for lack of what is found there.

— William Carlos Williams

There is some reason to believe that when a man does not write his poetry it escapes by other vents through him, instead of…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

“War, I have always said, forces men to change their standards, regardless of whether their country has won or lost. Poetics and philosophies disintegrate…

— Salvatore Quasimodo

Written poetry is worth reading once, and then should be destroyed. Let the dead poets make way for others.

— Antonin Artaud

The other side of it is that, despite all that, people reach out to poetry at the key moments in their lives.

— Paul Muldoon

In most men there exists a poet who died young, whom the man survived.

— Charles Augustin Sainte-Beuve

Are not poets men who fulfill their hopes prematurely?

— Honore de Balzac

We read poetry because the poets, like ourselves, have been haunted by the inescapable tyranny of time and death; have suffered the pain of…

— Elizabeth Drew

Poetry will exist as long as there is a problem of life and death

— Ruben Dario

“just another poem's male / diagnosis dancing the corpses of womenspeaking”

— Carrie Lorig

That is the saddest thing about being a writer. We die in ways you cannot fathom just to keep someone alive in our poetry.

— Needa Muy

Some men are one thing on the surface and another underneath. The true poet shows not just the exterior of his subject, but all…

— Steven Saylor