Died Quote by Charles Augustin Sainte-Beuve

Inside every man there is a poet who died young.

— Stefan Kanfer

There is something about a poet which leads us to believe that he died, in many cases, as long as 20 years before his birth.

— James Thurber

A poet must have died as a man before he is worth anything as a poet.

— Christian Morgenstern

“Dying can be quite the career move for a young poet.”

— Khaled Hosseini

It is difficult to get the news from poems, yet men die miserably every day for lack of what is found there.

— William Carlos Williams

It seems just possible that a poem might happen to a very young man: but a poem is not poetry -That is a life.

— T. S. Eliot

“A dead poet is better than one that's alive”

— Aaron Ozee

“We dwell with satisfaction upon the poet’s difference from his predecessors, especially his immediate predecessors; we endeavour to find something that can be isolated…

— T.S. Eliot

It is difficult to get the news from poetry, yet men die miserably every day for lack of what is found there.

— William Carlos Williams

At the age of 18 all young poets are sure they will be dead at 21 - of old age.

— Marguerite Young

“Know that there is often hidden in us a dormant poet, always young and alive.”

— Anonymous

There has been a time on earth when poets had been young and dead and famous - and were men. But now the poet…

— Tom Wolfe