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.
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• The poet is the Spaniard Francisco de Quevedo; the painter is Caravaggio, the master of darkness and light.
  — The New Yorker, 9 July 2023
• So were a news magazine, a Sikh politician and a poet from Canada.
  — Joseph Menn, Washington Post, 9 Nov. 2023
• Each poet will read their work before the song version is performed.
  — Nina MacLaughlin, BostonGlobe.com, 8 Dec. 2022
• This war has also claimed the lives of poets and writers among the casualties.
  — Andrew Limbong, NPR, 6 May 2024
• Many who knew him describe the experience of talking to Leonard the poet, not Leonard the person.
  — Hazlitt, 15 Mar. 2023
• Founded in 1971, the Society is dedicated to the research and study of the late poet’s work.
  — Pam Kragen, San Diego Union-Tribune, 7 Mar. 2024
• People eat soups and stews and read aloud poems by the 14th-century poet Hafez.
  — Los Angeles Times, 20 Dec. 2022
• But the 19th-century American poet may just as well have been referring to cells.
  — Paul Smaglik, Discover Magazine, 3 Oct. 2024

Last Updated: 14 Nov 2024