Death Quote by Charles Caleb Colton

Poets are never allowed to be mediocre by the gods, by men or by publishers.

— Horace

All poets pretend to write for immortality, but the whole tribe have no objection to present pay, and present praise. Lord Burleigh is not…

— Charles Caleb Colton

Poets alone are sure of immortality; they are the truest diviners of nature.

— Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

There are not many poets whose fame rests on a single work.

— Helen Vendler

Poets are born, not paid.

— Addison Mizner

Mediocrity in poets has never been tolerated by either men, or gods, or booksellers.

— Horace

The works of great poets have never been read by mankind, for only great poets can read them.

— Henry David Thoreau

“Poets and writers don't live either for money or for fame. And even without any recognition for their work they keep on writing!”

— Avijeet Das

a poet never feels useful.

— May Sarton

No writer, no matter how gifted, immortalizes himself unless he has crystallized into expressive and original phrase the eternal sentiments and yearnings of the…

— Alfred de Vigny

Whatever the poets pretend, it is plain they give immortality to none but themselves; it is Homer and Virgil we reverence and admire, not…

— Jonathan Swift

The poet is a creator, not an iconoclast, and never will tamely endeavor to say in prose what can only be expressed in song.

— Edmund Clarence Stedman