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)

“In order to master the unruly torrent of life the learned man meditates, the poet quivers, and the political hero erects the fortress of his will.”
—José Ortega Y Gasset (1883–1955)