Famous quotes containing the words american and/or poet:
“We hear about constitutional rights, free speech and the free press. Every time I hear those words I say to myself, “That man is a Red, that man is a Communist.” You never heard a real American talk in that manner.”
—Frank Hague (1876–1956)
““A poet is a man speaking to men”:
But I am then a poet, am I not?—”
—John Berryman (1914–1972)