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 individual woman is required ... a thousand times a day to choose either to accept her appointed role and thereby rescue her good disposition out of the wreckage of her self-respect, or else follow an independent line of behavior and rescue her self-respect out of the wreckage of her good disposition.
    Jeannette Rankin (1880–1973)

    It is rare to find one who was so much of a poet and so little of an artist.
    Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)