Laureate Quotes

35 Laureate quotes by 28 unique authors

Being Poet Laureate made me realize I was capable of a larger voice. There is a more public utterance I can make as a poet. — Rita Dove
It's the combination of the intimate and the public that I find so exciting about being poet laureate. — Rita Dove
I was appointed Poet Laureate. It came totally out of the blue because most Poet Laureates had been considerably older than I. It was not… — Rita Dove
People write me from all over the country, asking me, and sometimes even telling me, what they think a poet laureate should do. I found… — Rita Dove
I served the famous professors and scholars, and eventually they learned that the Reverend Moon is superior to them. Even Nobel laureate academics who thought… — Sun Myung Moon
In many ways, when you're a Nobel peace laureate, you have an obligation to humankind, to society. — Desmond Tutu
I would love to be the poet laureate of Coney Island. — Thornton Wilder
As the Nobel laureate Elie Wiesel warned years ago, to forget a holocaust is to kill twice. — Iris Chang
I knew if I lived long enough I would be poet laureate of something. — Patti Smith
George Stigler Nobel laureate and a leader of Chicago School was asked why there were no Nobel Prizes awarded in the other social sciences, sociology,… — Robert Kuttner
Once in a while, I have to pinch myself to remind myself I am Nobel laureate, but that is not part of my work plan… — Mohamed ElBaradei
As poet laureate, I was asked to be a spokesman for literature. — Robert Hass
Those who say we should dismantle the role of Poet Laureate altogether, the trick they miss is that being called this thing, with the weight… — Andrew Motion
Pretty much the day I stopped being laureate, the poems that had been few and far between came back to me, like birds in the… — Andrew Motion
If you would get money as a writer or lecturer, you must be popular, which is to go down perpendicularly.... You are paid for being… — Henry David Thoreau

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