Definition of Poet

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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. Related Definitions: An, Author, Composition, For, Genius, Has, Imaginative, In, Making, Metrical, Of, One, Or, Particular, Poem, Poetry, Skilled, The, Thinker, Who, Writer

Poet Quotations

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

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

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

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

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

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

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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