He that lives most dies most.
Everybody is worried about dying, but the cause of death is birth, so if you don't want to die, you don't get born!
Death is terrible, tho' borne on angels' wings!
I cry at births and not at funerals.
If death is the absence of life, then death's death is life.
How the hell do you wake up dead?
Offer me that deathless death Good God, let me give you my life.
Poetry is the harnessing of the paradox of earth cradling life and then entombing it.
He was obviously dead. But since he was a vampire that wasn't as hopless a thing as it might have been.