Famous quotes containing the words american and/or poet:
“The American landscape has no foreground and the American mind no background.”
—Edith Wharton (1862–1937)
“The poet will write for his peers alone. He will remember only that he saw truth and beauty from his position, and expect the time when a vision as broad shall overlook the same field as freely.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)