Horror Poetry Quotes

#1. France is not poetic; she even feels, in fact, a congenital horror of poetry. Among the writers who use verse, those whom she will always prefer are the most prosaic.

Charles Baudelaire

#2. Must beauty blossom, rooted in decay,
And night devour its flaming hues alway?

Clark Ashton Smith

#3. With a ring around the rosary
And a pocket full of crosses
Ashes to ashes
They'll all fall down

Matthew Fitzpatrick

#4. Such was a poet and shall be and is
-who'll solve the depths of horror to defend a sunbeam's architecture with his life: and carve immortal jungles of despair to hold a mountain's heartbeat in his hand.

E. E. Cummings

#5. The function of poetry is religious invocation of the muse; its use is the experience of mixed exaltation and horror that her presence excites.

Robert Graves

#6. In my poetry a rhyme
Would seem to me almost insolent.
Inside me contend
Delight at the apple tree in blossom
And horror at the house-painter's speeches.
But only the second
Drives me to my desk.

Bertolt Brecht

#7. Yet from thy lethal lips and thine alone,
Love would I drink, as dew from poison-bloom.

Clark Ashton Smith

#8. Growing up in the fifties, having to wear a dog tag, having to take shelter in a bomb shelter. That turned me toward the road, I did not want to live in fear of that, I was gong to work somehow against what that vision was, and what that horror was. It was poetry, art, music.

Anne Waldman

#9. I cannot breathe, or see, nor swim,
My darkness is composed of him.

Nenia Campbell

#10. If on thoughts of death we are fed,
Thus, a coffin, became my bed.

E.A. Bucchianeri

#11. Love is an exorcism of angels.

Stephanie M. Wytovich

#12. To make love is to give birth to death.

Stephanie M. Wytovich

#13. No music in the raindrops
No clouds with silver lining
Torrents of sorrows
Horror in streams

A.A. Patawaran