Famous quotes containing the words born, american and/or poet:
“I was born to travel and write verse.”
—Théophile Gautier (1811–1872)
“The American ideal, after all, is that everyone should be as much alike as possible.”
—James Baldwin (1924–1987)
“A poet would a-wishing go,
And he wished love were thus and so.
“If but it were,” he said, said he,
“And one thing more that may not be,
This world were good enough for me.””
—Robert Frost (1874–1963)