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Being the Children's Laureate has been educational, sometimes hectic, but most of all, great fun. -- Malorie Blackman
The best thing about being Children's Laureate has definitely been all the children and teens I've met. -- Malorie Blackman
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
Inspiring passion in children for books, and the world of imagination and creativity fuelled by them, is a fundamental reason for why the Children's Laureate post exists. -- Anthony Browne
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 something that I even had begun to dream about! -- Rita Dove
One of my main decisions when accepting the job of Children's Laureate was that I must continue working on picture books. If I don't write and illustrate for some time, then I begin to question who I am. -- Anthony Browne
Part of my job as Children's Laureate is to visit schools and talk about my love of books and stories and encourage them all to do it as well - to read, to write, to never be afraid of their own voice. Because we all have something to say. -- Malorie Blackman
My highest aspiration in life is to serve as the Limerick Laureate of Nantucket. -- Alan C. Baird
For me to sit down here, even as a Nobel Laureate and make a prediction about which science I think that will be a mistake. -- Ahmed H. Zewail
They wrote to me and said something about it, and I said that if it doesn't involve any work, I'll do it. (On being named Minnesota's first Poet Laureate) -- Robert Bly
Crowned with leaves of the laurel. In England the Poet Laureate is an officer of the sovereign's court, acting as dancing skeleton at every royal feast and singing-mute at every royal funeral. -- Ambrose Bierce
Powerful government tends to draw into it people with bloated egos, people who think they know more than everyone else and have little hesitance in coercing their fellow man. Or as Nobel Laureate Friedrich Hayek said, "in government, the scum rises to the top". -- Walter E. Williams
I was a subject of ridicule and lectures about the basics of crystallography. The leader of the opposition to my findings was the two-time Nobel Laureate Linus Pauling, the idol of the American Chemical Society and one of the most famous scientists in the world. -- Dan Shechtman
About 52% of the world's population is female. But most of the positions of power and prestige are occupied by men. The late Kenyan Nobel Peace Laureate Wangari Maathai put it simply and well when she said 'The higher you go, the fewer women there are.' -- Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
I am honoured to have the opportunity to follow in the footsteps of my esteemed colleague and fellow poet Mr. Dennis Lee, it will be with pride and passion that I carry forward the mandate of the Poet Laureate position for the City of Toronto and its residents. -- Pier Giorgio Di Cicco
I would love to be the poet laureate of Coney Island. -- Thornton Wilder
As poet laureate, I was asked to be a spokesman for literature. -- Robert Hass
The poet laureate of England talked about murdering Jews on the West Bank. -- Steven T. Katz
In many ways, when you're a Nobel peace laureate, you have an obligation to humankind, to society. -- Desmond Tutu
It's the combination of the intimate and the public that I find so exciting about being poet laureate. -- Rita Dove
When I became poet laureate, I was in a slightly uncomfortable position because I think a lot of poetry isn't worth reading. -- Billy Collins
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 every day. -- Mohamed ElBaradei
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 that immensely valuable. -- Rita Dove
Children will come out and listen to a writer whose books they like. They don't need a government agency or a medal that says 'laureate' to continue that. -- Anthony Browne
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 evening nesting in a tree. -- Andrew Motion
There are distinct duties of a poet laureate. I plan a reading series at the Library of Congress and advise the librarian. The rest is how I want to promote poetry. -- Rita Dove
My name was originally John Collins, but I just didn't think it had the flair I needed. I found out the poet laureate of Poland was named Krasinski and so it seemed like a shoe-in for show business. -- John Krasinski
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 they were at the center of knowledge are as nothing in front of me. -- Sun Myung Moon
Being the first black Nobel laureate, and the first African, the African world considered me personal property. I lost the remaining shreds of my anonymity, even to walk a few yards in London, Paris or Frankfurt without being stopped. -- Wole Soyinka
A drop in younger children visiting libraries is of great concern. As children's laureate, I am passionate about the role of libraries, both in schools and in the wider community. They are unique places where children can begin their journey as readers, as well as being creative hubs. -- Chris Riddell
The worst thing about being the laureate has been the attitude of a tiny minority of adults who haven't liked some of the things I'm supposed to have said and who have used it as an opportunity to be verbally abusive and nasty, but I haven't let it rule my world! -- Malorie Blackman
I know some people might think it odd - unworthy even - for me to have written a cookbook, but I make no apologies. The U.S. poet laureate Billy Collins thought I had demeaned myself by writing poetry for Hallmark Cards, but I am the people's poet so I write for the people. -- Maya Angelou
It is a tremendous honor to be named poet laureate, but one that I find humbling as well, because it's the kind of thing that makes me feel like - even as it's been bestowed upon me - I must continue to live up to what it means... Being the younger laureate in the age of social media is a new challenge. -- Natasha Trethewey
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 of tradition behind it, and with the association of the Royal family, does allow you to have conversations and to open doors, and wallets, for the good of poetry in a way that nothing else would allow. -- Andrew Motion
A poet laureate of adolescent sexuality and middle-age longing. -- William A. Henry III
[Bob Dylan] is a worthy laureate for the Nobel Prize. -- Sjon
I knew if I lived long enough I would be poet laureate of something. -- Patti Smith
As the Nobel laureate Elie Wiesel warned years ago, to forget a holocaust is to kill twice. -- Iris Chang
Bid amaranthus all his beauty shed, And daffodillies fill their cups with tears, To strew the laureate to hearse when Lycid lies. -- John Milton
I am a Nobel Peace laureate and my business should be to try to bring stability, not to be a red rag to bulls. -- Desmond Tutu
I love John Ashbery. He's the - really the poet laureate of English language poetry, whether he's given that or not, he is to me. -- Jim Jarmusch
Yes, I am the first Latino poet laureate in the United States. But I'm also here for everyone and from everyone. My voice is made by everyone's voices. -- Juan Felipe Herrera
Ted Hughes has been appointed poet laureate to succeed Sir John Betjeman, which is a bit like appointing a grim young crow to replace a cuddly old teddy bear. -- Philip Howard, 20th Earl of Arundel
There are distinct duties of a poet laureate. I plan a reading series at the Library of Congress and advise the librarian. The rest is how I want to promote poetry -- Rita Dove
We have a disturbing cultural appetite for novelty, and it seems to me wrong each new laureate should dislodge the ideas of his or her predecessor, especially when they're still unfolding. -- Louise Gluck
I don't believe anything unless I understand it inside out. And even if I understand something, it is not uncommon that I disagree with accepted view (even if it's a Nobel laureate). -- Michael Burry
Too many American authors have a servile streak where their backbone should be. Where's our latest Nobel laureate? More than likely you'll find him in the Rose Garden kissing the First Lady's foot. -- Edward Abbey

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