Als Quote by Edward Abbey

That is the saddest thing about being a writer. We die in ways you cannot fathom just to keep someone alive in our poetry.

— Needa Muy

“Suicide is career gold for the poet. Sadly, the poet isn’t around to reap any benefits from it.”

— Jim Behrle

Suicide is, after all, the opposite of the poem.

— Anne Sexton

Here let dead poetry rise once more to life.

— Dante Alighieri

If poets often commit suicide, it is not because their poems are bad but because they are good. Whoever heard of a bad poet…

— Walker Percy

“Dying can be quite the career move for a young poet.”

— Khaled Hosseini

The artistic life is a long, lovely suicide.

— Oscar Wilde

“Death was everywhere. Death was everything. Career. Desire. Dream. Poetry. Love. Youth itself. Dying became just another way of living. Graveyards sprang up in…

— Arundhati Roy

After so many deaths I live and write;

— George Herbert

“Life, of course, never gets anyone's entire attention. Death always remains interesting, pulls us, draws us. As sleep is necessary to our physiology, so…

— Janet Malcolm

“A poet could kill the dead.”

— Cameron Conaway

If you are of the opinion that the contemplation of suicide is sufficient evidence of a poetic nature, do not forget that actions speak…

— Fran Lebowitz