Jesus and Lincoln, Moses and Jefferson can seem so long gone, so unbelievable, so dead.
Sarah VowellIn the tight belly of the dead, Burrow with hungry head, And inlay maggots like a jewel.
Karl ShapiroThe writer of originality, unless dead, is always shocking, scandalous; novelty disturbs and repels.
Simone de Beauvoir...only one man lived who could understand 's papers. That was , and now he is dead.
Muriel Rukeyser