Poetry Excerpt Quotes

“Let love be the gravestone
Lying on my life.”
― Anna Akhmatova, The Complete Poems of Anna Akhmatova

“You are not dead
You are not dead
You are not dead
You are still
Here”
― Christopher Lilley, The Quiet Way: Selected Poems

“What air is there left to breathe”
― Antonio Cisneros, Spider Hangs Too Far From the Ground

“the song of the dead
heavy as rain
on the wide banana leaves
hard as drums”
― Antonio Cisneros, Spider Hangs Too Far From the Ground