Definition of poet
1 : one who writes poetry : a maker of verses
2 : one (such as a creative artist) of great imaginative and expressive capabilities and special sensitivity to the medium
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Examples of poet in a Sentence
Emily Dickinson is famous as the poet who rarely left the house but often journeyed to the depths of the human heart.
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The book was first published in 1947, at which time Brown was living with the poet Michael Strange in Manhattan in a small cottage called Cobble Court.
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In an Instagram post this weekend, Lawson shared a few choice stanzas by the 13th-century poet Rumi, seemingly an indirect way of confirming that was Beyoncé and Jay Z's inspiration behind the moniker for Rumi Carter.
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McClure's choleric Nick and Grisetti's sensitive-poet Nigel balance each other nicely.
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Spend an evening with Kentucky’s new poet laureate, Frederick Smock, on Tuesday, July 11 at the Louisville Free Public Library, 301 York St. Smock is a Louisville native and a professor of English at Bellarmine University.
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Putin is second, in a tie with poet—and fellow St. Petersburg native—Aleksandr Pushkin.
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Last season, Network for New Music developed new pieces with community poets in Germantown.
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Rumi is the name of a noted 13th century Persian poet.
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Green, a poet and novelist, has jaw-dropping true stories of his own: hitchhiking north at age 15; squatting in a mausoleum with a deranged derelict; finding his way home again.
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Origin and Etymology of poet
Middle English, from Anglo-French poete, from Latin poeta, from Greek poiētēs maker, poet, from poiein to make; akin to Sanskrit cinoti he gathers, heaps up
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