Possible Clues:

• Line, golden, from this poet?
• Cut tree tops at the entrance by court appointment in the poetic sense
• See 2 Down
• Honor recipient
• I'm honoured in vehicle, say, to have had meal
• Nobel Prize awardee
• The French old city energy fed prize-winner
• One honored for a great achievement
• Honoree, of a sort
• Like a poet with incredible aura – elite, not I!