Abandon Quote by Anonymous

Poems are never finished - just abandoned

— Paul Valery

Poets never die, I thought. They just fail in the end.

— Rick Yancey

A poem is never finished, only abandoned.

— Paul Valery

Poetry itself hasn't been well served by poets who fled to the margins.

— Edward Hirsch

I was taught that poems don't end, they just kind of stop. There's never an ending to a poem; it's a continuation for later.…

— Goldlink

Dismissals of poetry are nothing new. It's easy to dismiss poetry if one has not read much of it.

— Natasha Trethewey

After all, poets shouldn't be their own interpreters and shouldn't carefully dissect their poems into everyday prose; that would mean the end of being…

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

I went for years not finishing anything. Because, of course, when you finish something you can be judged...I had poems which were re-written so…

— Erica Jong

Poets are shameless with their experiences: they exploit them.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

When poems are no good they don't make any sense.

— Derek Walcott

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

— Antonin Artaud

Poets have to keep pushing, pushing, against the darkness, and write their way out of it as well.

— Anne Waldman