Died Quote by Christian Morgenstern

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

— Aaron Ozee

In most men there exists a poet who died young, whom the man survived.

— Charles Augustin Sainte-Beuve

The poet's business is not to save the soul of man but to make it worth saving.

— James Elroy Flecker

“Many of the poets writing today are hung up on language and symbolism. If the poem does not have depth of meaning or fit…

— Harley King

A man may be variously accomplished, and yet be a feeble poet.

— George Henry Lewes

Poetry which owes no man anything, owes nevertheless one debt - an image of the world in which men can again believe.

— Archibald MacLeish

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

— Antonin Artaud

“The history of man is a must read poetry.”

— Lailah Gifty Akita

Every man will be a poet if he can; otherwise a philosopher or man of science. This proves the superiority of the poet.

— Henry David Thoreau

“No poet, no artist of any art, has his complete meaning alone. His significance, his appreciation is the appreciation of his relation to the…

— T.S. Eliot

He that works and does some Poem, not he that merely says one, is worthy of the name of Poet.

— Thomas Carlyle

Inside every man there is a poet who died young.

— Stefan Kanfer