Appointed Poet Laureate

Famous quotes containing the words appointed and/or poet:

    “Mud unto mud!—Death eddies near—
    Not here the appointed End, not here!
    But somewhere, beyond Space and Time,
    Is wetter water, slimier slime!”
    —Rupert Brooke (1887–1915)

    “To the birds and trees he talks:
    Caesar of his leafy Rome,
    There the poet is at home.”
    —Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)