Nas' longevity comes from him having strong lyrical value…

My best songs were written very quickly. Just about as much time as it takes to write it down is about as long as…

— Bob Dylan

“Or like a poet woo the Moon, Riding an armchair for my steed, And with a flashing pen harpoon Terrific metaphors of speed.”

— Roy Campbell

“A smile, like the poet's muse, Inspires passion in the lover's heart”

— Alex Z. Moores

Anybody in the next centuries wanting to know what it was like to be a poet in the middle of the 20th century should…

— Leslie Fiedler

Formerly I believed books were made like this: a poet came, lightly opened his lips, and the inspired fool burst into song – if…

— Anonymous

I didn't feel like I was allowed to be a songwriter. I thought I had to be a really intelligent lyricist, like a poet.

— Kate Nash

The memoirist, like the poet and the novelist, must engage the world, because engagement makes experience, experience makes wisdom, and finally it's the wisdom-or…

— Vivian Gornick

I'd spent way more years worrying about how to look like a poet -- buying black clothes, smearing on scarlet lipstick, languidly draping myself…

— Mary Karr

A paranoiac, like a poet, is born, not made.

— Luis Bunuel

And If the surgeon is like a poet, then the scars you have made on countless bodies are like verses into the fashioning of…

— Richard Selzer

“...they wore their hair long like a poet who hopes that romantically flowing locks will make up for a wretched inability to find a…

— Terry Pratchett

“He kisses like a poet. Like he's writing poems on my lips.”

— Veronica Rossi

I consider myself a poet first and a musician second. I live like a poet and I'll die like a poet.

— Bob Dylan

“There were just all those evenings we sat together and it doesn't seem possible that it will never be again. It was like we…

— John Fowles

If you tell a novelist, 'Life's not like that', he has to do something about it. The poet simply replies, 'No, but I am.'

— Philip Larkin