Death Quote by Alexander Pope

By mourning tongues The death of the poet was kept from his poems.

— W. H. Auden

“A poet is an unhappy being whose heart is torn by secret suffrings, but whose lips are so strangely formed that when the sighs…

— Anonymous

What is a poet? An unhappy man who hides deep anguish in his heart, but whose lips are so formed that when the sigh…

— Soren Kierkegaard

“What is a poet? A poet is an unhappy being whose heart is torn by secret sufferings, but whose lips are so strangely formed…

— Kierkegaard

... what is great poetry, after all, but the continuation of the human voice after death?

— Erica Jong

“he shewed himself so intimately acquainted with all the tenderest songs of the one poet, and all the impassioned descriptions of hopeless agony of…

— Jane Austen

Poets may boast (as safely-vain) Their work shall with the world remain: Both bound together, live, or die, The verses and the prophecy. But…

— Edmund Waller

Written poetry is worth reading once, and then should be destroyed. Let the dead poets make way for others.

— Antonin Artaud

Look at Allen Ginsberg. In poems like 'Kaddish' and 'Howl,' you can hear a cantor between the lines. It's fully alive, and I think…

— Derek Walcott

A poet is an unhappy creature whose heart is tortured by deepest suffering but whose lips are so formed that when his sighs and…

— Soren Kierkegaard

Poetry's always dead, you know? You don't realize how good poetry is until 15 years later.

— Richard Hell

Oh, happy triumph of the poet! - to hear his verses wedded to sweet sounds, and warbled by the woman he loves!

— Samuel Lover