Appointed Poet Laureate

Famous quotes containing the words appointed and/or poet:

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

“It is an odd jealousy: but the poet finds himself not near enough to his object. The pine-tree, the river, the bank of flowers before him, does not seem to be nature. Nature is still elsewhere.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)