Top 69 Love Poetry Death Quotes

#1. The world is better without
them.
only the plants and the animals are
true comrades.
I drink to them and with
them.

Charles Bukowski

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#2. sometimes it's hard to know
what to
do.

Charles Bukowski

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#3. Poetry is a type-font design for an alphabet of fun, hate, love, death.

Carl Sandburg

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#4. When you're young
a pair of
female
high-heeled shoes
just sitting
alone
in the closet
can fire your
bones;
when you're old
it's just
a pair of shoes
without
anybody
in them
and
just as
well.

Charles Bukowski

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#5. Contemplating from the confines of a desk the reality of death is worthwhile, but only moderately enriching. Too often do I resort to it; rarely do I get with death in the ring.

Richard Ronald Allan

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#6. Then on your tombstone, where you only get a little bit of space to sum up your life, some wax-faced creep chisels a set of meaningless numbers instead of poetry or a secret love or the name of your favorite candy.
In the end, all you get is a few words.

Scott Nicholson

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#7. I wish I could run into the world's arms. Linger within the spaces between nothing. I wish I could filter out of existence. To live quietly without dying. I wish I could be cherished by life itself. To speak and sing volumes without lying to myself.

F.K. Preston

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#8. Sometimes all we need to be able to continue alone
are the dead
rattling the walls
that close us in.

Charles Bukowski

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#9. Where do they go, these dreams of mine? Do they live? Do they die? Do they fall? Do they fly?

F.K. Preston

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#10. 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

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#11. Love and Death? What has great music or poetry ever been about, but those twin forces that undo a man?

Douglas Wynne

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#12. We want murderous throats
affairs that resemble bright birds
in death spirals.

Krysten Hill

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#13. Humanity i love you because you
are perpetually putting the secret of
life in your pants and forgetting
it's there and sitting down
on it
and because you are
forever making poems in the lap
of death Humanity
i hate you

E. E. Cummings

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#14. Having nothing to struggle
against
they have nothing to struggle
for.

Charles Bukowski

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#15. One doesn't even think of
the liver
and if the liver
doesn't think of
us, that's
fine.

Charles Bukowski

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#16. 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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#17. Oh the stellar sensation,
Oh the cosmic elevation;
Time is sober in death,
For the wine of love;
Is the blue life of the earth.

Stephan Attia

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#18. 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

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#19. Life is beautiful. Death is astonishing.
And love is the just breaths taken in between

Michael Biondi

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#20. This morning could have been perfect. The cruel truth is they have never been. Give us loneliness or give us death.

Sean Gabler

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#21. 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

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#22. I die a little everyday, in trying to revive what I lost yesterday!

Jasleen Kaur Gumber

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

Stephanie M. Wytovich

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#24. Sometimes love
is that fucked up movie
where everyone dies
in the end.

Robert M. Drake

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#25. If you love me as I love you Nothing but death can part us two.

L.M. Montgomery

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#26. Love is fear but fear is death

Kruz Lex

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#27. 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

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#28. She was the death of me,
the beginning and the end.
And I never understood her,
for how could someone
So beautiful be the cause
of so much destruction
after all.

Robert M. Drake

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#29. Only those who will love longer than they expected to can truly love pecan pie, which doesn't explain its status as death rows most requested last dessert, or why chopped pecans, corn syrup, directions from the Karo bottle's cherry-red side are what mercy taste like to some. But there you have it.

Kate Lebo

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#30. I'm sick of the images trapped in my head
I'm sick of being preoccupied with the dead

Jessica-Lynn Barbour

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#31. It does seem
the more we drink
the better the words
go.

Charles Bukowski

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#32. She wasn't very
interesting
but few people
are.

Charles Bukowski

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#33. I see a bright
portion
under the overhead light
that shades into
darkness
and then into darker
darkness
and I can't see beyond that.

Charles Bukowski

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#34. It is not death that allows us to understand each other, but poetry.

Ursula K. Le Guin

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#35. i
let myself
know
that my life
doesn't
have to be over
just because
theirs are
& i went
ahead
& painted
the sun
back into
my sky.
I am allowed to live my life.

Amanda Lovelace

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#36. Let me live my final days whole.
Let my memory remain that I might know love's face.
Life don't unwrap me to be fed to scavengers.
I want to escape into light - not exist in darkness.

Susie Clevenger

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#37. 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

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#38. the gods seldom
give
but so quickly
take.

Charles Bukowski

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#39. The will of life and death,
never share the same motivation ...
we all know that love is the ultimate motive to die for ...
but let's not kid ourselves ...
... we all know the ultimate motive to rise back from the dead is vengeance.

Non Nomen

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#40. Inside a home you left me, a blue orphanage.
Inside a bluish mosaic, space to live.

Heng Siok Tian

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#41. Regret is mostly caused by not having
done anything.

Charles Bukowski

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#42. The greatest happiness is a quiet kind. It's the tender understanding that we're living in a very strange place full of strange creatures. And there's quite a bit of wonder in that.

F.K. Preston

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#43. All that is required of you is an open mind and a little patience.

F.K. Preston

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#44. 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

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#45. I touch you knowing we weren't born tomorrow,
and somehow, each of us will help the other live,
and somewhere, each of us must help the other die.

Adrienne Rich

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#46. I didn't know who to
believe
but
one thing I do
know: when a man is
living
many claim relationships
that are hardly
so
and after he dies, well,
then it's everybody's
party.

Charles Bukowski

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#47. I have no life but this,
To lead it here;
Nor any death, but lest
Dispelled from there;
Nor tie to earths to come,
Nor action new,
Except through this extent,
The realm of you.

Emily Dickinson

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#48. Love is bitter, death is sweet.

Jack Kerouac

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#49.
Who knows what death, anxiety of the living,
Who knows what loneliness, end of the loving
I could say to myself of the love (I had):
Let it not be immortal, since it is flame
But let it be infinite while it lasts.

Vinicius De Moraes

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#50. 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

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#51. 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

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#52. O serpent heart hid with a flowering face!
Did ever a dragon keep so fair a cave?
Beautiful tyrant, feind angelical, dove feather raven, wolvish-ravening lamb! Despised substance of devinest show, just opposite to what thou justly seemest - A dammed saint, an honourable villain!

William Shakespeare

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#53. 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

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#54. The bustle in a house
The morning after death
Is solemnest of industries
Enacted upon earth,
The sweeping up the heart,
And putting love away
We shall not want to use again
Until eternity

Emily Dickinson

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#55. 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

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#56. We all must face death and walk with it. But we also must love and live in it.

Rolando Mithcell

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#57. Through the darkest hours of the night
and through the dreamers realm I seek,
Far beyond the starry sky
and beyond galaxies I am free.
Through the grimmest memories
and past a seasons air I cannot breathe,
Far beyond this mortal world
in an afterlife we shall meet.

Lee Argus

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#58. I desired my dust to be mingled with yours
Forever and forever and forever.

Ezra Pound

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#59. the gods play no
favorites.

Charles Bukowski

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#60. The worst thing," he told me,
"is bitterness, people end up so
bitter.

Charles Bukowski

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#61. I keep dying and hoping you notice me. But you're too busy living.

F.K. Preston

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#62. There is nothing to me but you. I know it's pathetic but, oh darling, it's true.

F.K. Preston

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#63. Love taught me to die with dignity that I might come forth anew in splendor. Born once of flesh, then again of fire, I was reborn a third time to the sound of my name humming haikus in heaven's mouth.

Aberjhani

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#64. Some have won a wild delight,
By daring wilder sorrow;
Could I gain thy love to-night,
I'd hazard death to-morrow.

Charlotte Bronte

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#65. I feel my griefs too, and there scarce is ground
Upon my flesh t'inflict another wound.
Yet dare I not complain, or wish for death
With holy Paul; lest it be thought the breath
Of discontent; or that these prayers be
For weariness of life, not love of thee.

Ben Jonson

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#66. The worm doth woo the mortal, death claims a living bride,
Night unto day is married, morn unto eventide,
Earth a merry damsel, and heaven a knight so true,
And Earth is quite coquettish, and beseemeth in vain to sue.

Emily Dickinson

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#67. 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

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#68. 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

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#69. they told her, "fear the reaper."
she laughed to herself and muttered, 'baby, death ain't nothing' more than a quick fuck.
a little bit of silence after he comes.

Taylor Rhodes

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