Carolyn Kizer Quotes

Today she is the lady of death, which I believe is the best muse to have.

I found a great many pieces of punctuation and typography lying around dormant when I came along - and I must say I had a good time using them.

What I'm exploring right now is the subject of my own mortality. It's an area that I'm curious about, and I'm researching it to see if there's a photographic essay in it for me. If images don't start to come, I'll go to something else.

Remarks are not literature.

I'm possibly a very morbid person but I think about death a lot.

I'm tired of wasting letters when punctuation will do, period.

We all write poems; it is simply that poets are the ones who write in words.

Most of us harbour a significant amount of subconscious fear about death, and act out of this fear in our daily lives.

I'm not frightened about death. I don't know why, but I just feel that at a certain moment your switch is switched off, and that's it. And you can't do anything about it.

A poet is, before anything else, a person who is passionately in love with language.

I just don't get death at all. Yes, it's there. But I don't get it.

Death, the final, triumphant lover.

I read mostly poetry.

When you're dead, you're dead. That's it.

That death was near, I suppose I believed, but I saw it only as a rest after the day's work.

I'm not really obsessed with death.

All I can say is, death is a part of life.

Let no man fear to die, we love to sleep all, and death is but the sounder sleep.

We see death constantly on film.

Death to me means nothing as long as I can die fast.

I'll only stop singing when I'm in my grave.

Obviously death is a theme I'm fascinated by.

To have died once is enough.

Death seems to provide the minds of the Anglo-Saxon race with a greater fund of amusement than any other single subject.

I was a serious poet for quite a while and had little notebooks filled with poetry.