Appointed Poet Laureate

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

“If you would get money as a writer or lecturer, you must be popular, which is to go down perpendicularly.... You are paid for being something less than a man. The state does not commonly reward a genius any more wisely. Even the poet laureate would rather not have to celebrate the accidents of royalty. He must be bribed with a pipe of wine; and perhaps another poet is called away from his muse to gauge that very pipe.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)

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

“If a poet is anybody, he is somebody to whom things made matter very little—somebody who is obsessed by Making.”
—E.E. (Edward Estlin)