Rainer Maria Rilke

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.

German Poet

Abraham Maslow

A musician must make music, an artist must paint, a poet must write, if he is to be ultimately at peace with himself.

American Psychologist

Woody Allen

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.

American Director

Abraham Lincoln

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

American President

W. H. Auden

A poet is, before anything else, a person who is passionately in love with language.

English Poet

T. S. Eliot

The most important thing for poets to do is to write as little as possible.

American Poet

Plato

Poets utter great and wise things which they do not themselves understand.

Greek Philosopher

Amanda Gorman

As a public poet, people often don't see the reality of my life.

Jean Cocteau

The poet is a liar who always speaks the truth.

French Director

Paul Engle

The way to praise a poet is to write a poem.

Understand that poets can specialise in specific poetry forms like haiku, sonnets, or free verse.

Poetry Forms

Familiarize with poets who significantly influenced culture, such as national poets like Shakespeare in England.

Cultural Impact

Learn the historical periods poets wrote in, like ancient, classical, modern, as it affects their style and themes.

Historical Context

Identify how 'poet' symbolizes creativity in non-literal contexts, suggesting a person with artistic expression.

Creative Metaphor

Note that 'poet' can be applied metaphorically to people in other creative fields, like a 'dance poet'.

Artistry in Other Fields

Underline that being called a 'poet' can mean someone is skilled at conjuring images and stories in any medium.

Imaginative Skill

 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.

The poet who painted...

 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,

A brief history of...

 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,

The five major world...

 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

What Would You Do If...

 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,

Thoughts on humanity,...

 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,

Why should you read...

 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,

Why Shakespeare loved...

 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.

What makes a poem … a...

 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

How to deal with...

 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