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 French Revolution gave birth to no artists but only to a great journalist, Desmoulins, and to an under-the-counter writer, Sade. The only poet of the times was the guillotine.
    Albert Camus (1913–1960)