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)

    “Good manners, Madam, are had these days not
    For your asking, nor mine, nor what-we-used-to-be’s.
    The day is a loud grenade that bursts a smile
    Of serious weeds in a comic lily plot....”
    —Allen Tate (1899–1979)

    “No poet or orator has ever existed who believed there was any better than himself.”
    —Marcus Tullius Cicero (106–43 B.C.)