“For our dead are a part of the earth of Spain now and the earth of Spain can never die.”
Ernest Hemingway (1899–1961) American author and journalist
"On the American Dead in Spain", New Masses (February 14, 1939)
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“For our dead are a part of the earth of Spain now and the earth of Spain can never die.”
Ernest Hemingway (1899–1961) American author and journalist
"On the American Dead in Spain", New Masses (February 14, 1939)
“Poetry is not a mere shuffling of dead words or even a corralling of live ones.”
Theodore Roethke (1908–1963) American poet
Source: Poetry and Craft (1965), p. 89
“The earth belongs to the living, not to the dead.”
Thomas Jefferson (1743–1826) 3rd President of the United States of America
24 June 1813
1810s, Letters to John Wayles Eppes (1813)
“Whoever doesn't live in poetry cannot survive here on earth.”
Halldór Laxness (1902–1998) Icelandic author
Source: Under the Glacier
Ernest Hemingway (1899–1961) American author and journalist
"On the American Dead in Spain", New Masses (February 14, 1939)
“I never think of poetry or the poetry scene, only separate poems written by individuals.”
Philip Larkin (1922–1985) English poet, novelist, jazz critic and librarian
Interview in The Review, published by Ian Hamilton (1972)
“When there's no more room in hell, the dead will walk the earth.”
George A. Romero (1940–2017) American-Canadian film director, film producer, screenwriter and editor
Source: Dawn of the Dead
“Every dog on the face of the earth wants me dead.”
Bill Bryson (1951) American author
In a Sunburned Country (US), Down Under (UK) (2000)