Synonyms for poet
ˈpoʊ ɪtpo·et

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1. poetnoun

   Synonyms:
   poetess

2. poetnoun

   A person who writes poems.

   Synonyms:
   poetess

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1. poet

   Synonyms:
   bard, singer, rhymer, rhymster, author of poems

Princeton's WordNet

1. poetnoun

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

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1. • Writer

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1. poetnoun

   Synonyms:
   bard, author of poems

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1. poetnoun

   Synonyms:
   bard, laureate, versifier, rhymster, poetaster, troubadour, jongleur

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1. List of paraphrases for "poet":

   shaer, al-shaer, poets, poetry, bard, poetic

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How to use poet in a sentence?

1. Rainer Maria Rilke:

   If your daily life seems poor, do not blame it; blame yourself, tell yourself that you are not a poet enough to call forth its riches; for to the creator there is no poverty and no poor indifferent place.

2. Erica Jong:

   To name oneself is the first act of both the poet and the revolutionary. When we take away the right to an individual name, we symbolically take away the right to be an individual. Immigration officials did this to refugees; husbands routinely do it to wives.

3. Stefan Kanfer:

   Inside every man there is a poet who died young.

4. Phyllis McGinley:

   Gossip isn't scandal and it's not merely malicious. It's chatter about the human race by lovers of the same. Gossip is the tool of the poet, the shop-talk of the scientist, and the consolation of the housewife, wit, tycoon and intellectual. It begins in the nursery and ends when speech is past.

5. Ahmed Korayem:

   The object of the poet is not to accurately describe an emotion brought about from an experience, but rather, the poem is an acknowledgement that words have rendered themselves useless and the attempt to write is merely an acknowledgement of that moment