Famous quotes containing the words american and/or poet:
“I repeat that in this sense the most splendid court in Christendom is provincial, having authority to consult about Transalpine interests only, and not the affairs of Rome. A prætor or proconsul would suffice to settle the questions which absorb the attention of the English Parliament and the American Congress.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)
“If the poet has pursued a moral objective, he has diminished his poetic force.”
—Charles Baudelaire (1821–1867)