Quotes About Legacy

Death is her name, Who walks in her garden of fame, And plucks flowers for her lock, Which has the power to ride a flock.

My life is my message to the world

Leaving a good mark

Your life on earth will be graded by the effect of the footprints you leave behind

Ideas can't die, not because they are conceived by humans, but because time begets them.

Death is not the end but the beginning of the eternal life.

Death is not the end of life but the beginning of eternal life.

At the end, nothing will remain except the poetry of your love.

When humanity dies, what happens to all the people?

We and future generations should never forget them, Always remember them.

Let no-one say the past is dead, the past is all about us and within.

The advantage of poetry over life is that poetry, if it is sharp enough, may last.

Man hands on misery to man. It deepens like a coastal shelf. Get out as early as you can, And don't have any kids yourself.

That when we live no more, We may live ever

I like to think of poetry as statements made on the way to the grave.

I thought we were gonna open up the world of poetry and music to all kinds of things, and yet, I can't really think of anyone who's done anything like it since.

Once every five hundred years or so, a summary statement about poetry comes along that we can't imagine ourselves living without

He that would earn the Poet's sacred name, Must write for future as for present ages.

In perhaps 50 years, 60 years, we can finish completely this civilization, and offer to our children the possibility to invent a new story, a new poetry, a new romanticism.

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

A man of eighty has outlived probably three new schools of painting, two of architecture and poetry and a hundred in dress.

I think that at the bottom of all art lies the impulse to preserve.

... what is great poetry, after all, but the continuation of the human voice after death?

There were poets before Homer.