Appointed Poet Laureate

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

    Flash’d from his bed the electric tidings came,
    He is no better, he is much the same.
    —Anonymous.

    Parody of the style of poet laureate Alfred Austin (1835-1913)

    The meeting, in spite of my attempt to decline it, appointed me one of the delegates, so that in getting Baker the nomination, I shall be “fixed” a good deal like a fellow who is made groomsman to the man what has cut him out, and is marrying his own dear “gal.”
    Abraham Lincoln (1809–1865)

    The poet needs a ground in popular tradition on which he may work, and which, again, may restrain his art within the due temperance. It holds him to the people, supplies a foundation for his edifice; and, in furnishing so much work done to his hand, leaves him at leisure, and in full strength for the audacities of his imagination.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)