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One rumor straight comes huddling on another
Of death, and death, and death!
(Allen Tate (1899-1979), U.S. poet, critic. "Procession.")
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I can only see death and more death, till we are black and swollen with death.
(D.H. (David Herbert) Lawrence (1885-1930), British author. Letter, June 2, 1915. The Letters of D.H. Lawrence, vol. 2, eds. George J. Zytaruk and James T. Boulton (1981).)
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As deaths have accumulated I have begun to think of life and death as a set of balance scales. When one is young, the scale is heavily tipped toward the living. With the first death, the first consciousness of death, the counter scale begins to fall. Death by death, the scales shift weight until what was unthinkable becomes merely a matter of gravity and the fall into death becomes an easy step.
(Alison Hawthorne Deming (b. 1946), U.S. poet. Temporary Homelands, "Inside the Wolf," p. 60, Mercury House, San Francisco (1994).)
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Death destroys a man, but the idea of death saves him.
(E.M. (Edward Morgan) Forster (1879-1970), British novelist, essayist. Howards End, ch. 41 (1910).
After a line from Michelangelo's notebooks.)
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Death's at the bottom of everything, Martins. Leave death to the professionals.
(Graham Greene (1904-1991), British novelist, and Carol Reed. Major Calloway (Trevor Howard), in The Third Man (film) (1950).)
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Then is it sin
To rush into the secret house of death
Ere death dare come to us?
(William Shakespeare (1564-1616), British dramatist, poet. Cleopatra, in Antony and Cleopatra, act 4, sc. 16.
On the death of Antony.)
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Death is less bitter punishment than death's delay.
(Ovid (Publius Ovidius Naso) (43 B.C.-A.D. 17/18), Roman poet. Heroides, 10. 82 (Canace to Macareus).)
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Yea, worse than death: death parts both woe and joy:
From joy I part, still living in annoy.
(Sir Philip Sidney (1554-1586), British poet. Certain Sonnets: A Farewell (l. 13-14). . .
New Oxford Book of English Verse, The, 1250-1950. Helen Gardner, ed. (1972) Oxford University Press.)
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