Another edition was issued three years later, but by that time Cankar had already abandoned poetry and moved to engaged literature.

He even thought of abandoning poetry and trying his hand at film directing.

Determined to make a proper living, he largely abandoned poetry, shifting to prose.

He moved to Rome, temporarily abandoned poetry and dedicated himself exclusively to the visual arts.

At this point, a disillusioned Leopardi considers abandoning poetry for philosophy, but without any hope of glory.

But the muse's intervention also raises the possibility of abandoning poetry altogether.

"As a poet you become bitter," he writes of his decision to abandon poetry altogether.

Hobbes, let us say, made the right move to abandon poetry for philosophy.

"The process that led him to abandon poetry altogether lasted several years," Robb observes.

Like a number of his fellow Objectivists, Rakosi abandoned poetry in the 1940s.