Believe Quote by James Thurber

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

— Charles Augustin Sainte-Beuve

It is absurd to think that the only way to tell if a poem is lasting is to wait and see if it lasts.…

— Robert Frost

The birth of a true poet is neither an insignificant event nor an easy delivery. Complications generally begin long before the fated soul carries…

— Anonymous

At the age of 18 all young poets are sure they will be dead at 21 - of old age.

— Marguerite Young

The poets and philosophers I once loved had it wrong. Death does not come to us all, nor does the passage of time dim…

— Anonymous

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

— Christian Morgenstern

“We dwell with satisfaction upon the poet’s difference from his predecessors, especially his immediate predecessors; we endeavour to find something that can be isolated…

— T.S. Eliot

Unless a writer is extremely old when he dies, in which case he has probably become a neglected institution, his death must always be…

— James A. Baldwin

Each man carries within him the soul of a poet who died young.

— Antoine de Saint-Exupery

Every day, a piece of music, a short story, or a poem dies because its existence is no longer justified in our time. And…

— Elfriede Jelinek

Best thing to happen for a poet. A fine death, no? An impressive death.

— Jorge Luis Borges

“Will I be less dead because I wrote this poem or you more because you read it long years hence.”

— Maya Angelou