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It's necessary to start most work alone. But I'm tickled to death when I can pull somebody in or join someone, whether it's borrowing poetry or traveling with an associate. -- Jenny Holzer
My feeling is that poetry will wither on the vine if you don't regularly come back to the simplest fundamentals of the poem: rhythm, rhyme, simple subjects - love, death, war. -- James Fenton
I believe the death of Bobby Kennedy was in many ways the death of decency in America. I think it was the death of manners and formality, the death of poetry and the death of a dream. -- Emilio Estevez
I'm happy to stick with my persona. There are themes of love lost and love regained, but the main themes of all poems are basically love and death, and that seems to be the message of poetry. -- Billy Collins
What are the sources of poetry? Love and death and the paradox of love and death. All poetry from the beginning is about Eros and Thanatos. Those are the only subjects. And how Eros and Thanatos interweave. -- Erica Jong
In medicine as well as in romantic poetry, it is the heart that is the center and controlling mechanics of life. If the heart stops, life stops. The loss of sight doesn't not mean death. Yet for ages, the eyes was believed to contain a human being's vital essence - a not wholly irrational belief. -- Henry Grunwald
Poetry creates life; Science dissects death. -- Frederick William Robertson
Conscious writing can be the death of poetry. -- Marianne Moore
The death of childhood is the beginning of poetry. -- Andrei Tarkovsky
The theme of Death is to Poetry what Mistaken Identity is to Drama. -- Dannie Abse
It is not death that allows us to understand each other, but poetry. -- Ursula K. Le Guin
Poetry is a type-font design for an alphabet of fun, hate, love, death. -- Carl Sandburg
Poetry will exist as long as there is a problem of life and death -- Ruben Dario
... what is great poetry, after all, but the continuation of the human voice after death? -- Erica Jong
Topography is one of my chief themes in my poetry..about the country, the suburbs and the seaside... then there come's love... and increasingly; the fear of death. -- John Betjeman

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