Death Quote by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

“…no biography of his existed in German even though sales of his books were rising in Germany as well as the rest of Europe…

— Roberto Bolaño

For five hundred years after Walther's death - until Goethe - no German lyric poet was his equal.

— Walther von der Vogelweide

There's nothing in the world for which a poet will give up writing, not even he is a Jew and the language of his…

— Paul Celan

In 1945, just at the end of World War II, the American poet Muriel Rukeyser wrote a remarkable book called The Life of Poetry.…

— Adrienne Rich

Without curiosity a writer is dead.

— Lynne Tillman

“Neuere Poeten tun viel Wasser in die Tinte. (More recent poets put a lot of water in the ink.) -- Goethe: Aus Makariens Archiv.…

— Anonymous

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

— Aaron Ozee

“When writers die they become books, which is, after all, not too bad an incarnation." [As attributed by Alastair Reid in Neruda and Borges…

— Jorge Luis Borges

Inside every man there is a poet who died young.

— Stefan Kanfer

“Mr Rutger cornet de Groot. Never read any American poetry or any other foreign poetry, which is why he always mentions 2 poets as…

— Martinus Hendrikus Benders

The poem began with the title. Then I was annoyed by one of the occasional poetry-is-dead articles. Then I refute that notion.

— Thomas Lux

Look at Allen Ginsberg. In poems like 'Kaddish' and 'Howl,' you can hear a cantor between the lines. It's fully alive, and I think…

— Derek Walcott