poet

[Po·et]

If you’re a poet and you know it, you’re someone who writes poems. Poets have been charming people with their words ever since Orpheus sang his way to Hades and back.

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One skilled in making poetry; one who has a particular genius for metrical composition; the author of a poem; an imaginative thinker or writer.

Noun
a writer of poems (the term is usually reserved for writers of good poetry)


n.
One skilled in making poetry; one who has a particular genius for metrical composition; the author of a poem; an imaginative thinker or writer.


Poet

Po"et , n. [F. po'89te, L. po'89ta, fr. Gr. , fr. to make. Cf. Poem.] One skilled in making poetry; one who has a particular genius for metrical composition; the author of a poem; an imaginative thinker or writer.
The poet's eye, in a fine frenzy rolling, Doth glance from heaven to earth, from earth to heaven.
A poet is a maker, as the word signifies.
Poet laureate. See under Laureate.

One skilled in making poetry; one who has a particular genius for metrical composition; the author of a poem; an imaginative thinker or writer.

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Usage Examples

A sculptor is a person who is interested in the shape of things, a poet in words, a musician by sounds.

All poetry has to do is to make a strong communication. All the poet has to do is listen. The poet is not an important fellow. There will also be another poet.

A subject for a great poet would be God's boredom after the seventh day of creation.

A film is never really good unless the camera is an eye in the head of a poet.

A poet ought not to pick nature's pocket. Let him borrow, and so borrow as to repay by the very act of borrowing. Examine nature accurately, but write from recollection, and trust more to the imagination than the memory.

A writer should have the precision of a poet and the imagination of a scientist.

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Other Usage Examples

A poet never takes notes. You never take notes in a love affair.

A poet is, before anything else, a person who is passionately in love with language.

A musician must make music, an artist must paint, a poet must write, if he is to be ultimately at peace with himself.

A poet can survive everything but a misprint.

'Therefore' is a word the poet must not know.

A true poet does not bother to be poetical. Nor does a nursery gardener scent his roses.

A poet looks at the world the way a man looks at a woman.

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