At the touch of love everyone becomes a poet. From LearnThat.org. [Plato]
The poet is a word craftsman, a master of language. From Wordnik.com. [Nobel Prize in Literature 1987 - Press Release] Reference
I had the title poet, and maybe I was one for a while. From Wordnik.com. [Leonard Cohen: Zen And The Art Of Songwriting] Reference
"I had the title poet, and maybe I was one for a while," he says. From Wordnik.com. Reference
In this context, then, "poet" is a thoughtful writer. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2005-09-01] Reference
Baillie's theory of who can be a poet is also egalitarian. From Wordnik.com. ['[S]hak[ing] the dwellings of the great': Liberation in Joanna Baillies Poems (1790)] Reference
One of the people who have most influenced me as a poet is a poet. From Wordnik.com. [More on Community: Why We Do This : Kwame Dawes : Harriet the Blog : The Poetry Foundation] Reference
He is what I call a poet of the Metaphysical School of photography. From Wordnik.com. [Miami, Day 3.] Reference
I thus found out that the poet is a pulse in the rhythmic flow of generations. From Wordnik.com. [Octavio Paz - Nobel Lecture] Reference
A new interview with a poet is available for download and there is an extenisve archive. From Wordnik.com. [Literary Podcasts : Major Jackson : Harriet the Blog : The Poetry Foundation] Reference
To sum up, then, the poet is a man who was able to be more than a man: for he is in addition a poet. From Wordnik.com. [Vicente Aleixandre - Nobel Lecture] Reference
She made me have to reassess my understanding of what a poet does, of who a poet is and what makes a poet a poet. From Wordnik.com. [More on Community: Why We Do This : Kwame Dawes : Harriet the Blog : The Poetry Foundation] Reference
Because he is what they call a poet is no reason he should go moaning up and down, as if he had nothing to do but make songs. From Wordnik.com. [Aunt Jo's Scrap-Bag VI An Old-Fashioned Thanksgiving, Etc.] Reference
Occasionally the poet is actually confronted with objects or people that will not remain beyond arm's length — such as the Leech. From Wordnik.com. [Wandering in the Landscape with Wordsworth and Deleuze] Reference
Cohen is often described as a poet as much as a singer. From Wordnik.com. Reference
In that he called his poet Bilboa, by which name Sir Robert. From Wordnik.com. [The Lives of the Poets of Great Britain and Ireland (1753) Volume II] Reference
“First responsibility of a poet, is to be a technician”. From Wordnik.com. [Poets House, NYC] Reference
August Wilson is often described as a poet turned playwright. From Wordnik.com. Reference
She had a way of drawling out the word poet that exasperated him. From Wordnik.com. [Jack 1877] Reference
The poet is in love not with a woman so much as the concept of Woman. From Wordnik.com. [The Vivisection of Bone, Part 1: Romancing the Bone] Reference
Sweet Mother Nature can have no secrets from me when my poet is near. From Wordnik.com. [The Story of My Life] Reference
Location: sorry baby but your roving poet is just a footloose manwhore. From Wordnik.com. [it's wonderful. everywhere. so white.] Reference
Disraeli the imaginative poet is the heir to Alroy the imaginative man. From Wordnik.com. [Schwarz 2 - Criticism - Critical Contexts] Reference
Studying Keats's revisions, Ward concluded that a poet is made, not born. From Wordnik.com. [Inspiration Revised] Reference
But if the object figures a lie, then the poet is confronted with a dilemma. From Wordnik.com. [Shelley, Medusa, and the Perils of Ekphrasis] Reference
Jameson and became known as a poet, community activist and anti-war protester. From Wordnik.com. [Homepage] Reference
Also, the poet is supposed to somehow incorporate their name into the last line. From Wordnik.com. [Poetry: Moments of a Mosque] Reference
He knew enough English to understand the word poet, but Realtor?. From Wordnik.com. [Libeeration] Reference
Her poet is now her father, brother, comrade, — what she chooses, and all she chooses. From Wordnik.com. [The Kempton-Wace Letters] Reference
Of these two verses, assuredly that of the younger and obscurer poet is the more striking. From Wordnik.com. [The Poems of Henry Timrod.] Reference
The poet is in a transport at the wit of the general, and revels in the luxury of antithesis. From Wordnik.com. [The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire] Reference
In that he called his poet Bilboa, by which name Sir Robert Howard was the person pointed at. From Wordnik.com. [The Lives of the Poets of Great Britain and Ireland]
After this, it must I think be admitted that the explorer, like the poet, is "born, not made.". From Wordnik.com. [Pharaohs, Fellahs and Explorers] Reference
The poet is mute, "and to that lovely picture only pays/The wordless homage of a lingering gaze". From Wordnik.com. [Commentary on "Verses" by L.E.L.] Reference
The word poet shall be remembered with everlasting honour, when the title Marquis shall -- Pshaw!. From Wordnik.com. [The Adventures of Hugh Trevor] Reference
If we may believe a certain Latin poet, she selected an animal of illustrious origin, but very old. From Wordnik.com. [The Life of Joan of Arc, Vol. 1 and 2] Reference
Latin poet Horace (65-8 B.C.) whose writing is known for its formal rigor, succinctness, and elegance. From Wordnik.com. [Observations on Female Literature in General] Reference
In sections 26 through 31 (ll. 269-368), the sceptic as failed Byronic poet is given a "progress" from fame to ignominy and even oblivion. From Wordnik.com. [A Tour of the Sceptic] Reference
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