Famous quotes containing the words comic poet, comic and/or poet:
“There is only one vice, which may be found in life with as strong features, and as high a colouring as needs be employed by any satyrist or comic poet; and that is AVARICE.”
—David Hume (17111776)
“Good manners, Madam, are had these days not
For your asking, nor mine, nor what-we-used-to-bes.
The day is a loud grenade that bursts a smile
Of serious weeds in a comic lily plot....”
—Allen Tate (18991979)
“The poet is he who can write some pure mythology today without the aid of posterity.”
—Henry David Thoreau (18171862)
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