Famous quotes containing the words american poet, american and/or poet:
“One must always be aware, to notice—even though the cost of noticing is to become responsible.”
—Thylias Moss, African American poet. As quoted in the Wall Street Journal (May 12, 1994)
“Our American professors like their literature clear and cold and pure and very dead.”
—Sinclair Lewis (1885–1951)
“Let not the poet shed tears only for the public weal.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)