Appointed Poet Laureate

Famous quotes containing the words appointed and/or poet:

    And he appointed twelve, whom he also named apostles, to be with him, and to be sent out to proclaim the message...
    Bible: New Testament, Mark 3:14.

    I had not given a penny for a song
    Did not the poet sing it with such airs
    That one believed he had a sword upstairs;
    Yet would be now, could I but have my wish,
    Colder and dumber and deafer than a fish.
    William Butler Yeats (1865–1939)