How to Use poet in a Sentence

poet

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  • Emily Dickinson is famous as the poet who rarely left the house but often journeyed to the depths of the human heart.
  • The tragedy stayed with the poet for the rest of his life.
    — Miguel Morales, New York Times, 7 Dec. 2022
  • The poet is not going to come in and be like, 'Correct!
    — Pamela Avila, USA TODAY, 1 June 2023
  • Works by seven artists and one poet will be featured in the gallery from May 6 to June 17.
    — Myrna Petlicki, Chicago Tribune, 24 Apr. 2023
  • In the interviews, Alok would just turn into a poet on the spot.
    — Abbey White, The Hollywood Reporter, 17 Jan. 2024
  • Goldberg plays the agent of a U.S. actor (Irvine), and lands him a part as the great Italian poet.
    — Nick Vivarelli, Variety, 2 Sep. 2023
  • This poet’s world just happens to be filled with Birkins.
    — Vulture, 5 July 2023
  • In this way, and in this day, poets are replaced with politicians.
    — David Rosowsky, Forbes, 4 May 2023
  • The raindrops last week were an even stronger hint at the coming of fall and brought to mind the words of my favorite poet.
    — Ernie Cowan, San Diego Union-Tribune, 17 Sep. 2022
  • Aliph, a poet and a singer, stayed home to raise young David and his older brother, Ethan.
    — Steve Chawkins, Los Angeles Times, 19 Jan. 2023
  • On a blowout trip to the Greek island of Paros with friends, one travel writer found the kind of joy that poets write about.
    — Andrew Sean Greer, Travel + Leisure, 12 Aug. 2023
  • Groff imagined the poet Marie de France as a teenager forced to venture into the dark woods to serve as the abbess.
    — Ron Charles, Washington Post, 7 Sep. 2023
  • Their crop: wine, so fine the poet Dante sang its praises and medieval kings and popes guzzled it by the flagon.
    — Julia Buckley, Travel + Leisure, 18 Nov. 2023
  • The poets were mostly tragic women, one of whom walked into the sea and drowned.
    — J.p. Brammer, Los Angeles Times, 10 July 2023
  • Her lore encompassed not only the pop princess but also the club maven and the Tumblr poet, the it girl and the over-it girl.
    — Pitchfork, 1 Oct. 2024
  • Here was a poet who could run his hand through the flowers and lock himself in his bedroom for months.
    — Dan Piepenbring, Harper's Magazine, 15 Nov. 2023
  • On the page, Trump’s tweets are designed to mimic the abstract style of poets like e.e. cummings.
    — Melissa Cruz, USA TODAY, 17 July 2024
  • June Huh, 39, at Princeton, once dreamed of being a poet.
    — Karen Heller, Washington Post, 12 Oct. 2022
  • Tupac was a rapper and poet who became known as one of the greatest rap artists of all time.
    — Selome Hailu, Variety, 12 Jan. 2023
  • One person who had their palm read at this time was the Irish poet and playwright Oscar Wilde.
    — Michelle Aroney and David Zeitlyn, Smithsonian Magazine, 2 Jan. 2025
  • Most readers would expect to find this quote somewhere in that famed poet’s body of work.
    — Ilana Masad, The Atlantic, 11 Apr. 2024
  • His life of the poet Anthony Hecht will be published next year.
    — David Yezzi, WSJ, 11 Nov. 2022
  • On winter nights in the early sixteen-sixties, a blind poet lay awake in his bed and dreamed of the universe.
    — Merve Emre, The New Yorker, 16 Dec. 2024
  • Such is the case with the acclaimed poet and novelist John Kenney.
    — John Baldoni, Forbes, 15 Oct. 2024
  • But the idea of being a poet—what poets were in our neighborhood?
    — Christian Allaire, Vogue, 18 Oct. 2022
  • That’s the secret poets know, and so does Madison Avenue.
    — Ayad Akhtar, The Atlantic, 4 Dec. 2024
  • The poet, too, filled his darkness with a divine stream of words, and through these words a whole cosmos spun into view.
    — Merve Emre, The New Yorker, 16 Dec. 2024
  • In the flashbacks, Everett (Kerr) is a singer-songwriter with a poet’s soul.
    — Nellie Andreeva, Deadline, 19 Dec. 2024
  • Their son, Gogol, named for the Russian poet, represents the divide between his parents’ old and new life, in this beloved novel of identity and love.
    — Carly Tagen-Dye, People.com, 29 Dec. 2024
  • So, at the urging of a friend who was a poet, Bill began putting his war experiences into poetry.
    — John Baldoni, Forbes, 1 Jan. 2025

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