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)

    As long as there is satire, the poet is, as it were, particeps criminis.
    Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)