Comic Poet

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 (1711–1776)

    “Of course, the comic figure in all this is the long-suffering Mr. Wilkes. Mr. Wilkes—who can’t be mentally faithful to his wife and won’t be unfaithful to her technically.”
    —Sidney Howard (1891–1939)

    “Burst into my narrow stall;
    Swing the picture on the wall;
    Run the rattling pages o’er;
    Scatter poems on the floor;
    Turn the poet out of door.”
    —Robert Frost (1874–1963)