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)

    “Whereas the comic confronts simply logical contradictions, the tragic confronts a moral predicament. Not minor matters of true and false but crucial questions of right and wrong, good and evil face the tragic character in a tragic situation.”
    —Marie Collins Swabey. Comic Laughter, ch. 7, Yale University Press (1961)

    “A poet would a-wishing go,
    And he wished love were thus and so.
    “If but it were,” he said, said he,
    “And one thing more that may not be,
    This world were good enough for me.””
    —Robert Frost (1874–1963)