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)

“The comic is the perception of the opposite; humor is the feeling of it.”
—Umberto Eco (b. 1932)

“If a poet is anybody, he is somebody to whom things made matter very little—somebody who is obsessed by Making.”
—E.E. (Edward Estlin)