Engagement Quote by Vivian Gornick

As a poet or a novelist or a painter, you are pushing yourself all the time, always looking for a new way to approach…

— Paul Auster

I got out of Iowa all set to be a poet and a novelist, but you know what? It's really tough to make a…

— Peter Heller

The business of the poet and the novelist is to show the sorriness underlying the grandest things and the grandeur underlying the sorriest things.

— Thomas Hardy

“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

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

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