--- title: "9 Poet Died Quotes by 8 authors" description: "Browse 9 Poet Died quotes by 8 authors. Discover the best Poet Died sayings and thoughts." image: "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/00c/petrarch-6716_cat_when-the-poet-died-his-cat-was-put-to-de_3103446.png" --- > [When the poet died his cat was put to death and mummified.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/petrarch/when-the-poet-died-his-cat-was-put-to-death-and-mummified/) [Petrarch](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/petrarch/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/00c/petrarch-6716_cat_when-the-poet-died-his-cat-was-put-to-de_3103446.png) > [Inside every man there is a poet who died young.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/stefan-kanfer/inside-every-man-there-is-a-poet-who-died-young/) [Stefan Kanfer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/stefan-kanfer/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/5d7/stefan-kanfer-44090_died_inside-every-man-there-is-a-poet-who-die_2685860.jpg) > [In most men there exists a poet who died young, whom the man survived.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/charles-augustin-sainte-beuve/in-most-men-there-exists-a-poet-who-died-young-whom-the-man-survived/) [Charles Augustin Sainte-Beuve](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/charles-augustin-sainte-beuve/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/139/charles-augustin-sainte-beuve_died_in-most-men-there-exists-a-poet-who-died_2040557.png) > [A poet must have died as a man before he is worth anything as a poet.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/christian-morgenstern/a-poet-must-have-died-as-a-man-before-he-is-worth-anything-as-a-poet/) [Christian Morgenstern](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/christian-morgenstern/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/068/christian-morgenstern-21137_died_a-poet-must-have-died-as-a-man-before-he_1627334.jpg) > [Each man carries within him the soul of a poet who died young.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/antoine-de-saint-exup-ry/each-man-carries-within-him-the-soul-of-a-poet-who-died-young/) [Antoine de Saint-Exupery](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/antoine-de-saint-exup-ry/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/a6d/antoine-de-saint-exup-ry-174_men_each-man-carries-within-him-the-soul-of_888114.png) > [“So Mr. Pizarsky had been a poet? That was how he’d said it: “I was a poet." As if the poet had…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/helen-oyeyemi/so-mr-pizarsky-had-been-a-poet-that-was-how-he-d-said-it-i-was-a-poet/) [Helen Oyeyemi](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/helen-oyeyemi/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/bcf/helen-oyeyemi-1658_personalities_so-mr-pizarsky-had-been-a-poet-that-was_2814187.png) > [“I told you in the course of this paper that Shakespeare had a sister; but do not look for her in Sir…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/virginia-woolf/i-told-you-in-the-course-of-this-paper-that-shakespeare-had-a-sister/) [Virginia Woolf](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/virginia-woolf/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/555/virginia-woolf-49_aspirations_i-told-you-in-the-course-of-this-paper-t_1319651.jpg) > [“I told you in the course of this paper that Shakespeare had a sister; but do not look for her in Sir…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/virginia-woolf/i-told-you-in-the-course-of-this-paper-that-shakespeare-had-a-sister-2/) [Virginia Woolf](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/virginia-woolf/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/157/virginia-woolf-49_common-life_i-told-you-in-the-course-of-this-paper-t_2923880.jpg) > [“The following obituary appeared in the Pittsburgh Sun-Telegraph of Sept. 16, 1958: A GREAT POET died last week in Lancieux, France, at…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robert-service/the-following-obituary-appeared-in-the-pittsburgh-sun-telegraph-of/) [Robert Service](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/robert-service/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/bf2/robert-service-56131_alaska_the-following-obituary-appeared-in-the-p_1638160.jpg) ```json { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@graph": [ { "@type": "ItemList", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/poet-died/#itemlist", "name": "Poet Died Quotes", "numberOfItems": 9, "itemListElement": [ { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 1, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "When the poet died his cat was put to death and mummified.", "creator": 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died young.", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Antoine de Saint-Exupery" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/antoine-de-saint-exup-ry/each-man-carries-within-him-the-soul-of-a-poet-who-died-young/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/a6d/antoine-de-saint-exup-ry-174_men_each-man-carries-within-him-the-soul-of_888114.png", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/a6d/antoine-de-saint-exup-ry-174_men_each-man-carries-within-him-the-soul-of_888114.png", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/a6d/antoine-de-saint-exup-ry-174_men_each-man-carries-within-him-the-soul-of_888114.png", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“Each man carries within him the soul of a poet who died young.” — Antoine de Saint-Exupery", "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "creator": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } } } }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 6, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "“So Mr. Pizarsky had been a poet? That was how he’d said it: “I was a poet.\" As if the poet had died. He was hiding, perhaps.”", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Helen Oyeyemi" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/helen-oyeyemi/so-mr-pizarsky-had-been-a-poet-that-was-how-he-d-said-it-i-was-a-poet/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/bcf/helen-oyeyemi-1658_personalities_so-mr-pizarsky-had-been-a-poet-that-was_2814187.png", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/bcf/helen-oyeyemi-1658_personalities_so-mr-pizarsky-had-been-a-poet-that-was_2814187.png", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/bcf/helen-oyeyemi-1658_personalities_so-mr-pizarsky-had-been-a-poet-that-was_2814187.png", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“So Mr. Pizarsky had been a poet? That was how he’d said it: “I was a poet.\" As if the poet had died. He was…” — Helen Oyeyemi", "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "creator": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } } } }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 7, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "“I told you in the course of this paper that Shakespeare had a sister; but do not look for her in Sir Sidney Lee 's life of the poet. She died young--alas, she never wrote a word. She lies buried where the omnibuses now stop, opposite the Elephant and Castle. Now my belief is that this poet who never wrote a word and was buried at the crossroads still lives. She lives in you and in me, and in many other women who are not here tonight, for they are washing up the dishes and putting the children to bed. But she lives; for great poets do not die; they are continuing presences; they need only the opportunity to walk among us in the flesh.”", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Virginia Woolf" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/virginia-woolf/i-told-you-in-the-course-of-this-paper-that-shakespeare-had-a-sister/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/555/virginia-woolf-49_aspirations_i-told-you-in-the-course-of-this-paper-t_1319651.jpg", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/555/virginia-woolf-49_aspirations_i-told-you-in-the-course-of-this-paper-t_1319651.jpg", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/555/virginia-woolf-49_aspirations_i-told-you-in-the-course-of-this-paper-t_1319651.jpg", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“I told you in the course of this paper that Shakespeare had a sister; but do not look for her in Sir Sidney…” — Virginia Woolf", "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "creator": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } } } }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 8, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "“I told you in the course of this paper that Shakespeare had a sister; but do not look for her in Sir Sidney Lee’s life of the poet. She died young—alas, she never wrote a word. She lies buried where the omnibuses now stop, opposite the Elephant and Castle. Now my belief is that this poet who never wrote a word and was buried at the cross–roads still lives. She lives in you and in me, and in many other women who are not here to–night, for they are washing up the dishes and putting the children to bed. But she lives; for great poets do not die; they are continuing presences; they need only the opportunity to walk among us in the flesh. This opportunity, as I think, it is now coming within your power to give her. For my belief is that if we live another century or so—I am talking of the common life which is the real life and not of the little separate lives which we live as individuals—and have five hundred a year each of us and rooms of our own; if we have the habit of freedom and the courage to write exactly what we think; if we escape a little from the common sitting–room and see human beings not always in their relation to each other but in relation to reality; and the sky. too, and the trees or whatever it may be in themselves; if we look past Milton’s bogey, for no human being should shut out the view; if we face the fact, for it is a fact, that there is no arm to cling to, but that we go alone and that our relation is to the world of reality and not only to the world of men and women, then the opportunity will come and the dead poet who was Shakespeare’s sister will put on the body which she has so often laid down. Drawing her life from the lives of the unknown who were her forerunners, as her brother did before her, she will be born. As for her coming without that preparation, without that effort on our part, without that determination that when she is born again she shall find it possible to live and write her poetry, that we cannot expect, for that would he impossible. But I maintain that she would come if we worked for her, and that so to work, even in poverty and obscurity, is worth while.”", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Virginia Woolf" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/virginia-woolf/i-told-you-in-the-course-of-this-paper-that-shakespeare-had-a-sister-2/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/157/virginia-woolf-49_common-life_i-told-you-in-the-course-of-this-paper-t_2923880.jpg", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/157/virginia-woolf-49_common-life_i-told-you-in-the-course-of-this-paper-t_2923880.jpg", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/157/virginia-woolf-49_common-life_i-told-you-in-the-course-of-this-paper-t_2923880.jpg", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“I told you in the course of this paper that Shakespeare had a sister; but do not look for her in Sir Sidney…” — Virginia Woolf", "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "creator": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } } } }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 9, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "“The following obituary appeared in the Pittsburgh Sun-Telegraph of Sept. 16, 1958: A GREAT POET died last week in Lancieux, France, at the age of 84. He was not a poet's poet. Fancy-Dan dilletantes will dispute the description \"great.\" He was a people's poet. To the people he was great. They understood him, and knew that any verse carrying the by-line of Robert W. Service would be a lilting thing, clear, clean and power-packed, beating out a story with a dramatic intensity that made the nerves tingle. And he was no poor, garret-type poet, either. His stuff made money hand over fist. One piece alone, The Shooting of Dan McGrew, rolled up half a million dollars for him. He lived it up well and also gave a great deal to help others. \"The only society I like,\" he once said, \"is that which is rough and tough - and the tougher the better. That's where you get down to bedrock and meet human people.\" He found that kind of society in the Yukon gold rush, and he immortalized it.”", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Robert Service" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robert-service/the-following-obituary-appeared-in-the-pittsburgh-sun-telegraph-of/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/bf2/robert-service-56131_alaska_the-following-obituary-appeared-in-the-p_1638160.jpg", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/bf2/robert-service-56131_alaska_the-following-obituary-appeared-in-the-p_1638160.jpg", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/bf2/robert-service-56131_alaska_the-following-obituary-appeared-in-the-p_1638160.jpg", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“The following obituary appeared in the Pittsburgh Sun-Telegraph of Sept. 16, 1958: A GREAT POET died last…” — Robert Service", "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "creator": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } } } } ] }, { "@type": "CollectionPage", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/poet-died/#webpage", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/poet-died/", "name": "Poet Died Quotes", "isPartOf": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#website" }, "mainEntity": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/poet-died/#itemlist" }, "primaryImageOfPage": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/00c/petrarch-6716_cat_when-the-poet-died-his-cat-was-put-to-de_3103446.png" }, "description": "Browse 9 Poet Died quotes by 8 authors. 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