Appointed Poet Laureate

Famous quotes containing the words appointed and/or poet:

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

“Nobody, I think, ought to read poetry, or look at pictures or statues, who cannot find a great deal more in them than the poet or artist has actually expressed. Their highest merit is suggestiveness.”
—Nathaniel Hawthorne (1804–1864)