Death Quote by Edgar Allan Poe

“He wishes he were a skilled poet, it would fit his chosen image perfectly; the poor, tragic, tortured artiste. But he has no talent…

— Curtis Ackie

He was weary of himself, of cold ideas and brain dreams. Life a poem? Not when you went about forever poetizing about your own…

— Jens Peter Jacobsen

“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

“A poet, you see, is a light thing, and winged and holy, and cannot compose before he gets inspiration and loses control of his…

— Plato

It's not that he lacked poetry. But his poetry was of the body, not the mind. He spoke it in the way he moved,…

— Meg Rosoff

“Poetry was not meant to be a workhorse; it was not designed to paint pretty moral pictures of life; it was not brought into…

— Francis Beauchesne Thornton

“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

“And while he compared all these things which he was seeing with his eyes to the mental pictures he had painted of them in…

— Hermann Hesse

It is a mistake to talk about the artist looking for his subject. In fact, the subject grows within him like a fruit and…

— Andrei Tarkovsky

“He was in fact a poet without words, the more absorbed and endangered, that the springing waters were dammed back in his soul, where,…

— George MacDonald

The poet must put on the passion he wants to represent.

— Horace

“For a poet is an airy thing, winged and holy, and he is not able to make poetry until he becomes inspired and goes…

— Plato