“Nothing I do will make death disappearOr let your shudder or your knowledge go.See the world whole, and see it clearly then,A globe of dirt crusted with bones of men.If we walk, we walk on graves.- from "Shudder”

“Exiled by death from people we have known,We are reduced again by years, and tryTo call them back and clothe the barren bone,Not to admit that people ever die.-from "Exile”

“We made in those days tiny identical rooms inside our bodies which the men who uncover our graves will find in a thousand years shining and whole.”

“Life is hell but death is worse.- from "No Deposit”

“Death of a part is agony- from "The Red Branch”

“We die of habits,deplorable oneslike merely living:finally fatal.- from "Tubes”

“We are all dyingof something, always,but our degrees ofawareness differ- from "Tubes”