“Live your epitaph”
“Write to me your most perfect epitaph, or I shall compare a poet to a lecturer. Thou art more Spartan than a ballad monger who makes his living as a Wal-Mart greeter;”
“Take up the song; forget the epitaph.”
“Once someone asked me, "What do you want to be your epitaph?" So I said, "Paulo Coelho died when he was alive.”
“If you have so earth-creeping a mind that it cannot lift itself up to look to the sky of poetry...thus much curse I must send you, in the behalf of all poets, that while you live, you live in love, and never get favour for lacking skill of a sonnet; and, when you die, your memory die from the earth for want of an epitaph.”
“Wonderfullest things are ever the unmentionable; deep memories yield no epitaphs”