Poet
noun
A person who writes poems.
Robert Frost was a famous American poet.
Often appears as...
- beat poet
- war poet
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Literary
noun
A person with a high degree of imagination or creativity.
The chef is a true poet in the kitchen.
Often appears as...
- kitchen poet
- music poet
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Idiomatic
noun
A person who writes poems.
Robert Frost was a famous American poet.
Often appears as...
- beat poet
- war poet
Usage tips
Literary
noun
A person with a high degree of imagination or creativity.
The chef is a true poet in the kitchen.
Often appears as...
- kitchen poet
- music poet
Usage tips
Idiomatic
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Pro Tip 1/3Poetry Forms
Understand that poets can specialise in specific poetry forms like haiku, sonnets, or free verse.
She is an adept sonnet poet, capturing hearts with fourteen lines.
Pro Tip 2/3Cultural Impact
Familiarize with poets who significantly influenced culture, such as national poets like Shakespeare in England.
He's studying to understand why Shakespeare is considered the national poet.
Pro Tip 3/3Historical Context
Learn the historical periods poets wrote in, like ancient, classical, modern, as it affects their style and themes.
The poet's ancient Greek background influenced her epic poetry style.
Pro Tip 1/3Poetry Forms
Understand that poets can specialise in specific poetry forms like haiku, sonnets, or free verse.
She is an adept sonnet poet, capturing hearts with fourteen lines.
Pro Tip 2/3Cultural Impact
Familiarize with poets who significantly influenced culture, such as national poets like Shakespeare in England.
He's studying to understand why Shakespeare is considered the national poet.
Pro Tip 3/3Historical Context
Learn the historical periods poets wrote in, like ancient, classical, modern, as it affects their style and themes.
The poet's ancient Greek background influenced her epic poetry style.
Pro Tip 1/3Poetry Forms
Understand that poets can specialise in specific poetry forms like haiku, sonnets, or free verse.
She is an adept sonnet poet, capturing hearts with fourteen lines.
Pro Tip 2/3Cultural Impact
Familiarize with poets who significantly influenced culture, such as national poets like Shakespeare in England.
He's studying to understand why Shakespeare is considered the national poet.
Pro Tip 3/3Historical Context
Learn the historical periods poets wrote in, like ancient, classical, modern, as it affects their style and themes.
The poet's ancient Greek background influenced her epic poetry style.
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The poet who painted...
within this dynamic scene, art critic, poet, and champion of the avant-garde, Guillaume Apollinaire was a well-known fixture. As an art critic, Apollinaire explained the cubist and surrealist movements to the world, and rose to the defense of many young artists in the face of what was often a xenophobic and narrow-minded public.
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A brief history of...
But is there something sad about a world without sadness? Our cavemen ancestors and favorite poets might not want any part of such a paradise. In fact, the only things about sadness that seem universally agreed upon are that it has been felt by most people throughout time, and that for thousands of years,
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The five major world...
In the next few years, more and more messages came, and he memorized and taught them. The verses he recited were full of wise sayings, beautiful rhymes, and mysterious metaphors. But Muhammad was a merchant, not a poet. Many agreed the verses were indeed the words of God,
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What Would You Do If...
what will how would you really enjoy spending your life well it's so amazing as a result of our kind of educational system crowds of students say well we'd like to be painters we'd like to be poets we'd like to be writers but as everybody knows you can't earn any money
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Thoughts on humanity,...
I've learned that whatever moves you, whatever urges you to create, to build, whatever keeps you from failing, whatever helps you survive, is perhaps the oldest and the simplest emotion known to mankind, and that is love. A mystic poet from my land famously wrote,
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Why should you read...
She wrote, "When one reads of a witch being ducked, of a woman possessed by devils, of a wise woman selling herbs, or even a very remarkable man who had a mother, then I think we're on the track of a lost novelist, a suppressed poet,
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Why Shakespeare loved...
But there is a secret to appreciating it. Although he was famous for his plays, Shakespeare was first and foremost a poet. One of the most important things in Shakespeare's language is his use of stress. Not that kind of stress,
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What makes a poem … a...
Poets themselves have struggled with this question, often using metaphors to approximate a definition. Is a poem a little machine? A firework? An echo? A dream? Poetry generally has certain recognizable characteristics.
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How to deal with...
my mother was a very glamorous poet and an artist and they were always very interesting people around he was a bohemian world she loved entertaining and there would be raucous parties on weeknights I would
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Surrounded by Life PIPE...
cave George is surrounded by countless forms of life I'm not at all upset that I was unable to go down a big poet I'm sure they're
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The poet who painted...
within this dynamic scene, art critic, poet, and champion of the avant-garde, Guillaume Apollinaire was a well-known fixture. As an art critic, Apollinaire explained the cubist and surrealist movements to the world, and rose to the defense of many young artists in the face of what was often a xenophobic and narrow-minded public.
Video examples
A brief history of...
But is there something sad about a world without sadness? Our cavemen ancestors and favorite poets might not want any part of such a paradise. In fact, the only things about sadness that seem universally agreed upon are that it has been felt by most people throughout time, and that for thousands of years,
Video examples
The five major world...
In the next few years, more and more messages came, and he memorized and taught them. The verses he recited were full of wise sayings, beautiful rhymes, and mysterious metaphors. But Muhammad was a merchant, not a poet. Many agreed the verses were indeed the words of God,
Video examples
What Would You Do If...
what will how would you really enjoy spending your life well it's so amazing as a result of our kind of educational system crowds of students say well we'd like to be painters we'd like to be poets we'd like to be writers but as everybody knows you can't earn any money
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Thoughts on humanity,...
I've learned that whatever moves you, whatever urges you to create, to build, whatever keeps you from failing, whatever helps you survive, is perhaps the oldest and the simplest emotion known to mankind, and that is love. A mystic poet from my land famously wrote,
Video examples
Why should you read...
She wrote, "When one reads of a witch being ducked, of a woman possessed by devils, of a wise woman selling herbs, or even a very remarkable man who had a mother, then I think we're on the track of a lost novelist, a suppressed poet,
Video examples
Why Shakespeare loved...
But there is a secret to appreciating it. Although he was famous for his plays, Shakespeare was first and foremost a poet. One of the most important things in Shakespeare's language is his use of stress. Not that kind of stress,
Video examples
What makes a poem … a...
Poets themselves have struggled with this question, often using metaphors to approximate a definition. Is a poem a little machine? A firework? An echo? A dream? Poetry generally has certain recognizable characteristics.
Video examples
How to deal with...
my mother was a very glamorous poet and an artist and they were always very interesting people around he was a bohemian world she loved entertaining and there would be raucous parties on weeknights I would
Video examples
Surrounded by Life PIPE...
cave George is surrounded by countless forms of life I'm not at all upset that I was unable to go down a big poet I'm sure they're
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Rainer Maria Rilke
German Poet
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.
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Abraham Maslow
American Psychologist
A musician must make music, an artist must paint, a poet must write, if he is to be ultimately at peace with himself.
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Woody Allen
American Director
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.
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Abraham Lincoln
American President
There is another old poet whose name I do not now remember who said, 'Truth is the daughter of Time.
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W. H. Auden
English Poet
A poet is, before anything else, a person who is passionately in love with language.
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T. S. Eliot
American Poet
The most important thing for poets to do is to write as little as possible.
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Plato
Greek Philosopher
Poets utter great and wise things which they do not themselves understand.
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Amanda Gorman
American Poet
As a public poet, people often don't see the reality of my life.
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Jean Cocteau
French Director
The poet is a liar who always speaks the truth.
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Paul Engle
American Poet
The way to praise a poet is to write a poem.
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Rainer Maria Rilke
German Poet
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.
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Abraham Maslow
American Psychologist
A musician must make music, an artist must paint, a poet must write, if he is to be ultimately at peace with himself.
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Woody Allen
American Director
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.
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Abraham Lincoln
American President
There is another old poet whose name I do not now remember who said, 'Truth is the daughter of Time.
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W. H. Auden
English Poet
A poet is, before anything else, a person who is passionately in love with language.
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T. S. Eliot
American Poet
The most important thing for poets to do is to write as little as possible.
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Plato
Greek Philosopher
Poets utter great and wise things which they do not themselves understand.
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Amanda Gorman
American Poet
As a public poet, people often don't see the reality of my life.
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Jean Cocteau
French Director
The poet is a liar who always speaks the truth.
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Paul Engle
American Poet
The way to praise a poet is to write a poem.
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