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“Death most resembles a prophet who is without honor in his own land or a poet who is a stranger among his people.”

People Death Land Poet Honor Stranger Prophet Death And Dying Dying Death Near Death Stranger In A Strange Land Someone Who Is Dying

Author:Khalil Gibran

“Death! It is rest to the aged, it is oblivion to the atheist, it is immortality to the poet!”

Death Poet Atheist Immortality Oblivion

Book:Wisdom, Wit and Pathos of Ouida

Source: Wisdom, Wit and Pathos of Ouida

“Nay, the greatest wits and poets, too, cease to live; Homer, their prince, sleeps now in the same forgotten sleep as do the others. [Lat., Adde repertores doctrinarum atque leporum; Adde Heliconiadum comites; quorum unus Homerus Sceptra potitus, eadem aliis sopitu quiete est.]”

Death Sleep Poet Forgotten Wit Cease

Author:Lucretius

“Let all Black Poets die as trumpets, And be buried in the dust of marching feet.”

Death Poetry Dies Black Feet Poet Dust Buried Trumpets All Black

Book:The Essential Etheridge Knight

Source: The Essential Etheridge Knight

“At the temple there is a poem called "Loss" carved into the stone. It has three words, but the poet has scratched them out. You cannot read loss, only feel it.”

Feels Death Three Loss Poet Stones Temples Three Words Geisha

Author:Arthur Golden