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A man of few words,
I just sit still on this hill,
I know death will persist,
I write when my mind is still,
I bleed daily to exist. — P.J. Bayliss

How do you like your blue-eyed boy Mr Death? — E. E. Cummings

Play a Death March for me — T. Grassan

It is not death that allows us to understand each other, but poetry. — Ursula K. Le Guin

No one knows here, that the Death is actually, Actually to Born. — Samar Sudha

I fain would follow love, if that could be;
I needs must follow death, who calls for me;
Call and I follow, I follow! let me die. — Alfred Tennyson

When the star dies,
Its eye closes; tired of watching,
It flies back to its first bright dream. — Dejan Stojanovic

They could not listen.
They could not stop.
What they did was the death dance.
What they did would do them in. — Anne Sexton

This is why I write. Because poetry begins where death is robbed of the last word. — Odysseus Elytis

All paths lead to death,
our premature sacrifice for future spawn

(from Elixir) — Bryan Murphy

sometimes it's hard to know
what to
do. — Charles Bukowski

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

The world is better without
them.
only the plants and the animals are
true comrades.
I drink to them and with
them. — Charles Bukowski

Poets are interested primarily in death and commas. — Carolyn Kizer

My heart was full of softening showers,
I used to swing like this for hours,
I did not care for war or death,
I was glad to draw my breath. — Stevie Smith

The death of childhood is the beginning of poetry. — Andrei Tarkovsky

All around us is a nothing that stretches on for infinity. We humans can barely comprehend that. If we comprehend it we are rarely pleased. — F.K. Preston

No more coming home as to a death sentence.
No more leaving after this leaving. — Boey Kim Cheng

I'm sick of the images trapped in my head
I'm sick of being preoccupied with the dead — Jessica-Lynn Barbour

Writing poetry requires frequent visits to the land of the dead. — Marty Rubin

I can't even make up a rhyme about an umbrella, let alone death and life and eternal peace. — Knut Hamsun

Death makes its own choices.
Has reasoning an order has a taste ... — Angelo Tsanatelis

Tell me: what's more obscene than fucking waste?
Death is in quite poor taste, if you ask me. — Eleanor Brown

As long as music survives, poetry will never die. — Michael Bassey Johnson

This my personal death? -
That my lungs be failing
To inhale the breath
Others are exhaling? — Edna St. Vincent Millay

Because Dad told you he'd be here forever.
Because I thought forever was like Mars -- far away. — Kwame Alexander

the mind is a treasure
trove, an almanac, a tomb. — Beth Morey

Science ask facts and religion ask faith, humans are confused between life and death. — Santosh Kalwar

The red washing
down the bathtub
can't change the color of the sea
at all. — Derrick Brown

Conscience is no more than the dead speaking to us. — Jim Carroll

We all must face death and walk with it. But we also must love and live in it. — Rolando Mithcell

I walk with a dual longing
for life and for death. — Melissa Lee-Houghton

The worst thing," he told me,
"is bitterness, people end up so
bitter. — Charles Bukowski

Perhaps, if I make a friend
of the mountain cuckoo
in this world,
he will talk to me
when we cross the mountain of death — Izumi Shikibu

For life's not a paragraph/ and death, i think, is no parenthesis. — E. E. Cummings

the gods play no
favorites. — Charles Bukowski

I leave you, to go the road we all must go. The road I would choose, if only I could, is the other. — Murasaki Shikibu

If they succeed, you will not be packed off to some idyllic farm, where you can write bad poetry, we will both be executed. — A.H. Septimius

Such is true joy's absolute certainty,
Its slow lit fuse that burns holes
In the shabby shroud of death forever. — Scott Hastie

The death of a beautiful woman is, unquestionably, the most poetical topic in the world. — Edgar Allan Poe

Sometimes love
is that fucked up movie
where everyone dies
in the end. — Robert M. Drake

In greatness, life and death merge. — Dejan Stojanovic

We want murderous throats
affairs that resemble bright birds
in death spirals. — Krysten Hill

I found the best thing
I could do
was just to type away
at my own work
and let the dying
die
as they always have. — Charles Bukowski

Inside a home you left me, a blue orphanage.
Inside a bluish mosaic, space to live. — Heng Siok Tian

And let me ask you this: the dead,
where aren't they? — Franz Wright

I used to only write poetry; now I live it. I finally matured enough to starve my hypocrisy to death. — Steve Maraboli

Nature is bent on new beginning
and death has not a chance of winning ... — Rosy Cole

Just know I am
Not there to catch you
But I am there for you — Caleb Warta

All that is required of you is an open mind and a little patience. — F.K. Preston

Sometimes all we need to be able to continue alone
are the dead
rattling the walls
that close us in. — Charles Bukowski

Our Mother feedeth thus our little life, That we may in turn feed her with our death — James Thomson

What is great poetry, after all, but the continuation of the human voice after death? — Erica Jong

I'm merely dying to be remembered for simply writing about my living memories — Michael Biondi

I die a little everyday, in trying to revive what I lost yesterday! — Jasleen Kaur Gumber

Heaven isnt my place, neither is hell. I have no place, except the death that's awaiting me — Erin Hanson

Conscious writing can be the death of poetry. — Marianne Moore

SOME PEOPLE SIMPLY DO NOT EXIST ANYMORE. GET USED TO IT. QUESTION MARK. — Amy King

the gods seldom
give
but so quickly
take. — Charles Bukowski

Marriage is a contract between 2 people male and female;doing what it takes to make the union work until death due them apart — Martellis Thurmand

My creativity keeps me from starving. Humanity keeps my life mundane. Loving secures my love for life, but my imagination keeps me sane. — F.K. Preston

I take this continent with me into the grave. — Ray Bradbury

The true poet is all the time a visionary and whether with friends or not, as much alone as a man on his death bed. — William Butler Yeats

Violence can read like poetry. You just have to describe the act as if you're in love with the way your characters bleed. — F.K. Preston

We are all debts owed to death. — Simonides

The Scorpion?
The Grasshopper?
Which way will she go? — E.A. Bucchianeri

Aflame in black ecstasy, orders extinguished:
after death
how will I know my love was true,
this sacrifice not an exercise in vanity? — Phan Ming Yen

The theme of Death is to Poetry what Mistaken Identity is to Drama. — Dannie Abse

Death defines life. I'd rather stay undefined. — Lera Auerbach

When the last leaf falls,
what will die within us? — Sheniz Janmohamed

She wasn't very
interesting
but few people
are. — Charles Bukowski

Death is the end of the poetry we call life. — Debasish Mridha

When I shut my eyes on this world I'll finally have peace. — Kevin Walker

They are both spectacular,
Life and death. — Dejan Stojanovic

I feel no grief for being called something
which
I am not;
in fact, it's enthralling, somehow, like a good
back rub — Charles Bukowski

Unbeing dead isn't being alive. — E. E. Cummings

O God bid my poor body to arise
On that bright day triumphant through the skies! — Timothy Salter

I keep dying and hoping you notice me. But you're too busy living. — F.K. Preston

Death stoops over me.
I'm a problem in chess. He
has the solution. — Tomas Transtromer

Everything was going to kill you, poetry as well, and the last was the most deadly. — Brian Castro

I grow into my death.
My life is small
and getting smaller. The world is green.
Nothing is all. — Mark Strand

Life defined only as the opposite of death is not life. — Mahmoud Darwish

forge forever on
tho' dark death rewards us all
forge forever on — Kurt Brindley

Having nothing to struggle
against
they have nothing to struggle
for. — Charles Bukowski

I desired my dust to be mingled with yours
Forever and forever and forever. — Ezra Pound

Every phrase and every sentence is an end and a beginning, every poem an epitaph. — T. S. Eliot

Dear friend, I have searched all night
through each burnt paper,
but I fear I will never find
the formula to let you die — Leonard Cohen

Regret is mostly caused by not having
done anything. — Charles Bukowski

If poetry could truly tell it backwards, then it would. — Carol Ann Duffy

In crime and enmity they lie
Who sin and tell us love can die,
Who say to us in slander's breath
That love belongs to sin and death. — John Clare

Life into death
Life's other shape,
No rupture,
Only crossing. — Dejan Stojanovic

Some men never
die
and some men never
live
but we're all alive
tonight. — Charles Bukowski

Before she knew it, she was just another set of eyes in a dusty attic, waiting for the stairs to creak. — Kelly Moran

Every poem should remind the reader that they are going to die. — Edgar Allan Poe

the song of the dead
heavy as rain
on the wide banana leaves
hard as drums — Antonio Cisneros

You only live twice:
Once when you are born
And once when you look death in the face — Ian Fleming

And here face down beneath the sun
And here upon earth's noonward height
To feel the always coming on
The always rising of the night — Archibald MacLeish

Dying is a universe of its own. — Arlene Ang

Another lover hits the universe. The circle is broken. But with death comes rebirth. And like all lovers and sad people, I am a poet. — Allen Ginsberg

No mark survives this place: you too will yield
to unmemory. — Mathew Henderson