[2] Tóth went to secondary school (gymnasium) in Debrecen and then studied German and Hungarian at the University of Budapest.

[citation needed] In 1913, he became a tutor to a wealthy family and received a little income from writing but still lived in poverty.

[citation needed] He remained poor and sick with tuberculosis for the rest of his life, succumbing to the disease in Budapest in 1928.

In April 2011, the Hungarian National Bank issued a commemorative silver coin celebrating the 125th anniversary of the poet's birth.

He translated Milton, Oscar Wilde, Shelley, Keats, Baudelaire, Flaubert, Gautier, Maupassant, and Chekhov.