Gerda Lerner - Death

Famous quotes containing the word death:

“Two graves must hide thine and my corse;
If one might, death were no divorce.”
—John Donne (1572–1631)

“Young lover to old lover: I do not feel death in your embrace, but the adoration of the patriarchs.”
—Mason Cooley (b. 1927)

“your antlers like seaweed,
your face like a wolf’s death mask,
your mouth a virgin, your nose a nipple,
your legs muscled up like knitting balls,
your neck mournful as an axe....”
—Anne Sexton (1928–1974)