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
• 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
• 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
• With help from artists, poets and kings past, the protagonist embarks on a journey to learn about his family secret.
  — Christopher Murray, Fox News, 28 Nov. 2024
• Hawkes set foot on her first film set in the sixth grade and, since then, the screenwriter, director, painter and occasional poet honed her genre skills as an intern at Jason Blum’s Blumhouse Productions.
  — Angelique Jackson, Variety, 1 Nov. 2024

Last Updated: 20 Dec 2024