Appointed Poet Laureate

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

“Flash’d from his bed the electric tidings came,
He is no better, he is much the same.”
—Anonymous.

Parody of the style of poet laureate Alfred Austin (1835-1913)

“No person connected with me by blood or marriage will be appointed to office.”
—Rutherford Birchard Hayes (1822–1893)

“To be a poet is a condition rather than a profession.”
—Robert Graves (1895–1985)