Appointed Poet Laureate

Famous quotes containing the words appointed and/or poet:

“Mud unto mud!—Death eddies near—
Not here the appointed End, not here!
But somewhere, beyond Space and Time,
Is wetter water, slimier slime!”
—Rupert Brooke (1887–1915)

“As long as there is satire, the poet is, as it were, particeps criminis.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)