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)

    To a poet the mere making of a poem can seem to solve the problem of truth ... but only a problem of art is solved in poetry.
    Laura Riding (1901–1991)