What's really funny about being National Youth Poet Laureate is that not everyone even knows it exists. — Amanda Gorman Copy Share Image
It's the combination of the intimate and the public that I find so exciting about being poet laureate. — Rita Dove Copy Share Image
A poet laureate of adolescent sexuality and middle-age longing. — William A. Henry III Copy Share Image
To be poet laureate is to try to spread the love and the accessibility of poetry to young people. — Jacqueline Woodson Copy Share Image
The poet laureate of England talked about murdering Jews on the West Bank. — Steven T. Katz Copy Share Image
People write me from all over the country, asking me, and sometimes even telling me, what they think a poet laureate should… — Rita Dove Copy Share Image
“So I don’t think I’ll make Poet Laureate, but I swear I’m not twisted and bitter, If finely-wrought talents don’t weigh in… — Rosy Cole Copy Share Image
Ted Hughes has been appointed poet laureate to succeed Sir John Betjeman, which is a bit like appointing a grim young crow… — Philip Howard, 20th Earl of Arundel Copy Share Image
I was appointed Poet Laureate. It came totally out of the blue because most Poet Laureates had been considerably older than I.… — Rita Dove Copy Share Image
Crowned with leaves of the laurel. In England the Poet Laureate is an officer of the sovereign's court, acting as dancing skeleton… — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
It wasn't until I was named Youth Poet Laureate of L.A. in high school though that I officially began calling myself a… — Amanda Gorman Copy Share Image
I'm a student at Harvard University, and currently work as the United States Youth Poet Laureate, a community organizer, and an activist. — Amanda Gorman Copy Share Image
Being Poet Laureate made me realize I was capable of a larger voice. There is a more public utterance I can make… — Rita Dove Copy Share Image
I know some people might think it odd - unworthy even - for me to have written a cookbook, but I make… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
If you would get money as a writer or lecturer, you must be popular, which is to go down perpendicularly… You are… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
I certainly was surprised to be named Poet Laureate of this far-out city on the left side of the world, and I… — Lawrence Ferlinghetti Copy Share Image
“Would I be commenting on Amy Fisher? Was that the sort of subject that someone who hoped to become poet laureate should… — Calvin Trillin Copy Share Image
I am honoured to have the opportunity to follow in the footsteps of my esteemed colleague and fellow poet Mr. Dennis Lee,… — Pier Giorgio Di Cicco Copy Share Image
I've written on public matters, but I don't understand how anyone could tout me as a possible poet laureate when I wrote… — Tony Harrison Copy Share Image
Those who say we should dismantle the role of Poet Laureate altogether, the trick they miss is that being called this thing,… — Andrew Motion Copy Share Image
As poet laureate, I was asked to be a spokesman for literature. Then what I decided is I am a spokesman for… — Robert Hass Copy Share Image
There are distinct duties of a poet laureate. I plan a reading series at the Library of Congress and advise the librarian.… — Rita Dove Copy Share Image
“You know what I love about you? You can go from cussing sailor to poet laureate in three seconds without batting an… — Georgina Guthrie Copy Share Image
“They wrote to me and said something about it, and I said that if it doesn't involve any work, I'll do it.… — Robert Bly Copy Share Image
I love John Ashbery. He's the - really the poet laureate of English language poetry, whether he's given that or not, he… — Jim Jarmusch Copy Share Image
It is a tremendous honor to be named poet laureate, but one that I find humbling as well, because it's the kind… — Natasha Trethewey Copy Share Image
