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)

    But though Heaven made him poor, with reverence speaking,
    He never was a poet of God’s making;
    The midwife laid her hand on his thick skull,
    With this prophetic blessing—Be thou dull;
    John Dryden (1631–1700)