How to Use poet in a Sentence

poet

noun
  • Emily Dickinson is famous as the poet who rarely left the house but often journeyed to the depths of the human heart.
  • Some poets don’t know how to read the room.
    — Peter Mishler august 27, Literary Hub, 27 Aug. 2025
  • In the dark, a poet sings to hold the wolves at bay.
    — Literary Hub, 28 Jan. 2026
  • Or was there no master poet at all?
    — David Denby, New Yorker, 21 June 2026
  • The poet was mourning the death of his wife.
    — Jill Lepore, New Yorker, 2 Mar. 2026
  • Good, a mother and poet, was struck four times.
    — Jessica Schladebeck, New York Daily News, 21 Jan. 2026
  • The poets are taking to the streets.
    — Literary Hub, 28 Jan. 2026
  • And a poet prays words still matter.
    — Becky Bartkowski, AZCentral.com, 27 Dec. 2025
  • What kind of person would shoot a poet on the street and walk away?
    — Literary Hub, 28 Jan. 2026
  • And well, going back to the poets, to err is human.
    — Dana O’Neil, CNN Money, 5 Nov. 2025
  • Faith is an 18-year-old full-time writer and poet.
    — Nicolas Johnson-Smith, Baltimore Sun, 2 Jan. 2026
  • In this way, and in this day, poets are replaced with politicians.
    — David Rosowsky, Forbes, 4 May 2023
  • My father was a poet; my mother’s an artist.
    — Angela Andaloro, PEOPLE, 14 Apr. 2026
  • Is the poet amongst us, before us, or within?
    — Elaine L. Wang september 11, Literary Hub, 11 Sep. 2025
  • The poet’s space can be usurped by a reader; her lines will, inevitably, be crossed.
    — Elisa Gonzalez, The New Yorker, 14 Mar. 2022
  • Grimes, meanwhile, urged artists to think of their work as philosophers, and poets.
    — Sebastian Herrera, Fortune, 9 June 2026
  • What does a poet have, and what does the poem allow for the poet?
    — Literary Hub, 5 Mar. 2026
  • One night, the poet Chase Twichell read a suite of poems.
    — Vinson Cunningham, New Yorker, 25 Dec. 2025
  • Patron poet of people who never quite fit in and don’t much care to?
    — Alex Abramovich, New Yorker, 22 Dec. 2025
  • Patron poet of people who never quite fit in and don’t much care to?
    — Alex Suskind, Pitchfork, 18 Mar. 2026
  • Who are a couple of your favorite poets who have inspired you?
    — Will Oremus, The Atlantic, 3 July 2026
  • Aracelis Girmay is a poet who makes works across genres.
    — Literary Hub, 13 Mar. 2026
  • Swayer is a spoken word poet and this is clear in her verse that is melodic on the page.
    — Amber McBride, Literary Hub, 5 Nov. 2025
  • But these poets showed me the richness and breadth of poetry.
    — Literary Hub, 26 June 2026
  • To honor the expat poet, the town has named the street in front of his house after him.
    — Rick Steves, Chicago Tribune, 13 Jan. 2026
  • And while the result was not the poet’s cut, there is a sense of poetry to it.
    — Megan Feringa, New York Times, 15 Sep. 2025
  • The event featured me and three poets, each of whom loved their day jobs at nonprofits.
    — Vince Passaro, Harpers Magazine, 30 Dec. 2025
  • The author is a poet from the Midwest.
    — Literary Hub, 28 Jan. 2026
  • 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
  • What the poets do with that neutrality is good.
    — Literary Hub, 5 Mar. 2026

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