Appointed Poet Laureate

Famous quotes containing the words poet laureate, appointed and/or poet:

    If you would get money as a writer or lecturer, you must be popular, which is to go down perpendicularly.... You are paid for being something less than a man. The state does not commonly reward a genius any more wisely. Even the poet laureate would rather not have to celebrate the accidents of royalty. He must be bribed with a pipe of wine; and perhaps another poet is called away from his muse to gauge that very pipe.
    Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)

    Like pilgrims to th’ appointed place we tend;
    The world’s an inn, and death the journey’s end.
    John Dryden (1631–1700)

    If a poet is anybody, he is somebody to whom things made matter very little—somebody who is obsessed by Making.
    —E.E. (Edward Estlin)