Death Quote by Charles Caleb Colton

All poets pretend to write for immortality, but the whole tribe have no objection to present pay and present praise.

— Charles Caleb Colton

A banker warned the British poet Robert Graves that one could not grow rich writing poetry. He replied that if there was no money…

— Robert Graves

“There’s no money in poetry, but then there’s no poetry in money either.” - Robert Graves”

— Robert Graves

“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

“Do not write for money nor for fame, if you must write then write to be immortal”

— Colin W. Hill

All that a critic, as critic, can give poets is the deadly encouragement that never ceases to remind them of how heavy their inheritance…

— Harold Bloom

A poet can't afford to be aloof. The tools of his trade are the people he bumps up against.

— Rod McKuen

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

— Christian Morgenstern

Poets are born, not paid.

— Addison Mizner

In general, in poetry and literature, I am among those people who believe that too much is indispensable.

— Yevgeny Yevtushenko

There is little premium in poetry in a world that thinks of Pound and Whitman as a weight and a sampler, not an Ezra,…

— Anna Quindlen

“Because Poets don't dream of becoming millionaires.”

— Avijeet Das