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)

    “And in a comic mood
    In mid-air take to bed a wife.”
    —Karl Shapiro (b. 1913)

    “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)