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)

“If a poet is anybody, he is somebody to whom things made matter very little—somebody who is obsessed by Making.”
—E.E. (Edward Estlin)