Famous quotes containing the words american and/or poet:
“The American man is a very simple and cheap mechanism. The American woman I find a complicated and expensive one. Contrasts of feminine types are possible. I am not absolutely sure that there is more than one American man.”
—Henry Brooks Adams (1838–1918)
“Let not the poet shed tears only for the public weal.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)