"I would love to be the poet laureate…" — Thornton Wilder
"I would love to be the poet laureate of Coney Island."
More Coney Quotes
- I'd go to Coney Island to hang out, and I saw a magician doing a rope trick on the boardwalk.… — David Blaine
- Never had there been such an opportunity for the dissemination of knowledge…. But the obverse is also true. We can… — Howard E. Koch
- When I started off as an actress, I did at a play at the Taper Too Theatre here in Los… — Vivica Fox
- I'm one of relatively few stage-trained actors who doesn't much like acting on stage. It feels kind of like riding… — Fred Melamed
- It is with roses and locomotives (not to mention acrobats Spring electricity Coney Island the 4th of July the eyes… — E E Cummings
- My family originally lived in Brooklyn. Our first apartment was a little place above my father and uncle's hardware store… — Gilbert Gottfried
- Back when I lived in Brooklyn, I'd sometimes take the Q train all the way out to Coney Island and… — Joshua Foer
- I had a great education. From kindergarten to John Dewey High School in Coney Island, I am public-school educated. — Spike Lee
- They can't hurt me. Sure, they can crush you and kill you. They can lay you out on 42nd and… — Bob Dylan
- Yes, I was born in Coney Island. The Holy Land. — Arlo Guthrie