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Definition of Poet

Poet

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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Poet Quotations

There is another old poet whose name I do not now remember who said, "Truth is the daughter of Time."
Abraham Lincoln

The lunatic, the lover, and the poet, are of imagination all compact.
William Shakespeare

A poet can survive everything but a misprint.
Oscar Wilde

My role in society, or any artist's or poet's role, is to try and express what we all feel. Not to tell people how to feel. Not as a preacher, not as a leader, but as a reflection of us all.
John Lennon

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

Death most resembles a prophet who is without honor in his own land or a poet who is a stranger among his people.
Khalil Gibran

Pound's crazy. All poets are. They have to be. You don't put a poet like Pound in the loony bin.
Ernest Hemingway

At the touch of love everyone becomes a poet.
Plato

The generous Critic fann'd the Poet's fire, And taught the world with reason to admire.
Edgar Allan Poe

Every heart sings a song, incomplete, until another heart whispers back. Those who wish to sing always find a song. At the touch of a lover, everyone becomes a poet.
Plato

The poet ranks far below the painter in the representation of visible things, and far below the musician in that of invisible things.
Leonardo da Vinci

Everywhere I go I find that a poet has been there before me.
Sigmund Freud

As the poet said, 'Only God can make a tree,' probably because it's so hard to figure out how to get the bark on.
Woody Allen

A poem is a naked person... Some people say that I am a poet.
Bob Dylan

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

I think a poet is anybody who wouldn't call himself a poet.
Bob Dylan

A tramp, a gentleman, a poet, a dreamer, a lonely fellow, always hopeful of romance and adventure.
Charlie Chaplin

To be a poet is a condition, not a profession.
Robert Frost

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

As things are, and as fundamentally they must always be, poetry is not a career, but a mug's game. No honest poet can ever feel quite sure of the permanent value of what he has written: He may have wasted his time and messed up his life for nothing.
T. S. Eliot

Any poet, if he is to survive beyond his 25th year, must alter; he must seek new literary influences; he will have different emotions to express.
T. S. Eliot

The business of the poet is not to find new emotions, but to use the ordinary ones and, in working them up into poetry, to express feelings which are not in actual emotions at all.
T. S. Eliot

The bad poet is usually unconscious where he ought to be conscious, and conscious where he ought to be unconscious.
T. S. Eliot

What is a poet? An unhappy person who conceals profound anguish in his heart but whose lips are so formed that as sighs and cries pass over them they sound like beautiful music.
Soren Kierkegaard

If a poet is anybody, he is somebody to whom things made matter very little - somebody who is obsessed by Making.
e. e. cummings

If your daily life seems poor, do not blame it; blame yourself that you are not poet enough to call forth its riches; for the Creator, there is no poverty.
Rainer Maria Rilke

The first man to compare the cheeks of a young woman to a rose was obviously a poet; the first to repeat it was possibly an idiot.
Salvador Dali

Joyce is a poet and also an elephantine pedant.
George Orwell

The proof of a poet is that his country absorbs him as affectionately as he has absorbed it.
Walt Whitman

The eye is the notebook of the poet.
James Russell Lowell

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Poet Translations

poet in Afrikaans is digter
poet in Danish is digter
poet in Dutch is dichter
poet in German is Dichter, Poet
poet in Italian is vate
poet in Latin is poeta
poet in Portuguese is poeta
poet in Spanish is poeta
poet in Swedish is skald, poet, diktare

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