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)

    “The sensual man conforms thoughts to things; the poet conforms things to his thoughts. The one esteems nature as rooted and fast; the other, as fluid, and impresses his being thereon.”
    —Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)