Artist Quote by Walker Percy

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

— Anne Sexton

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

Poets never die, I thought. They just fail in the end.

— Rick Yancey

All poets write bad poetry. Bad poets publish them, good poets burn them.

— Umberto Eco

Written poetry is worth reading once, and then should be destroyed. Let the dead poets make way for others. Then we might even come…

— Antonin Artaud

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

— Jim Behrle

“It seems to me indisputably true that a good many people, the wide world over, of varying ages, cultures, natural endowments, respond with a…

— J.D. Salinger

After all, poets shouldn't be their own interpreters and shouldn't carefully dissect their poems into everyday prose; that would mean the end of being…

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

It is my belief that many who think they dislike poetry are really poetical in their natures and are indebted to it, more than…

— Orson F. Whitney

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

— Antonin Artaud

It is always hard for poets to believe that one says their poems are bad not because one is a fiend but because their…

— Randall Jarrell

It is fatal to decide, intellectually, what good poetry is because you are then in honour bound to try to write it, instead of…

— Philip Larkin