Appointed Poet Laureate

Famous quotes containing the words appointed and/or poet:

“If a man die, shall he live again? All the days of my appointed time will I wait, till my change come.”
—Bible: Hebrew Job 14:14.

“I am no Poet here; my pen ‘s the spout,
Where the rain water of my eyes run out,
In pity of that name, whose fate wee see
Thus copied out in griefs Hydrography:
The Muses are not Mer-maids, though upon
His death the Ocean might turn Helicon”
—John Cleveland (1613–1658)