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)
“What the Journal posits is not the tragic question, the Madmans question: Who am I?, but the comic question, the Bewildered Mans question: Am I? A comica comedian, thats what the Journal keeper is.”
—Roland Barthes (19151980)
“It is not possible, for a poet, writing in any language, to protect himself from the tragic elements in human life.... [ellipsis in source] Illness, old age, and deathsubjects as ancient as humanitythese are the subjects that the poet must speak of very nearly from the first moment that he begins to speak.”
—Louise Bogan (18971970)