Dead Quote by Derek Walcott

It is tragic that Howard Hughes had to die to prove that he was alive.

— Walter Keane

There is no one more deserving of a place in Poets' Corner. Ted Hughes introduced a new kind of landscape into English poetry. The…

— Derek Walcott

My life with Howard Hughes was and shall remain a matter on which I will have no comment.

— Anonymous

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

Politics can be the graveyard of the poet. And only poetry can be his resurrection.

— Langston Hughes

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

— Aaron Ozee

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

— Christian Morgenstern

I think Stephen Crane too becomes trapped in a myth that poetry should be operating at a certain level, that there's the real world…

— Douglas A. Martin

Without curiosity a writer is dead.

— Lynne Tillman

He is not dead who departs from life with a high and noble fame; but he is dead, even while living, whose brow is…

— Anonymous

“ASK NOT IF POETRY IS DEAD, ASK HOW YOU CAN LIVE FOR POETRY.”

— Amy King

One must be a living man and a posthumous artist.

— Jean Cocteau