What is your definition of a poet?

Question:Is it someone who is paid for their work?
Someone who writes what you like?

Just curious what it is to you.
Thanks all!!

Best Answer - Chosen by Asker: Is it someone who is paid for their work?
Someone who writes what you like?

Just curious what it is to you.
Thanks all!!

Someone who puts thought, emotions, events into an artistic written form. Someone who can provide a voice for others so that ideas get heard. Someone who can find the beauty mundane objects, tasks, and people. It's not about being paid or recognized. It's about writing from the heart.

Someone who speaks from their heart about life or what they feel to be true.

A writer is someone who uses the right words. A poet is someone who uses the right words in the right order.

Just a man or woman who writes poems of his or her own creation.

A poet is someone who pours down his /her ideas powerfully and in a rhythmic manner- which is appealing to the readers.
Right use of words, use of artistic phrases etc. make a good poetry- and a- good poet.

A poet is a brother speaking to a brother of a moment of their lives - a moment that has been buried beneath the dust of the busy world.

dare i scrawl these words?
un-written yet spoken in silence
within hearts of all?
a step so bold so un-sure.
i await in waiting for someone to see,
to understand.

A poet is one who creates words,letters,shapes using letter's,colors with words.wow,that is a deep question!A poet is one who speaks or writes with the heart mind and soul !
I was once told that when I wake up in the morning and my first words are" I am a poet"Than a poet I shall be.seeing and believing are two different things. You can be what ever you believe to be and never let anybody tell you different!!!!!!

A writer of poems (the term is usually reserved for writers of good poetry) Poet
An author who writes poetry or verse. The term is also used to refer to an artist or writer who has an exceptional gift for expression, imagination, and energy in the making of art in any form. Well-known poets include Horace, Basho, Sir Philip Sidney, Sir Edmund Spenser, John Donne, Andrew Marvell, Alexander Pope, Jonathan Swift, George Gordon, Lord Byron, John Keats, Christina Rossetti, W. H. Auden, Stevie Smith, and Sylvia Plath.

Someone who breathes life into words and creates a magical place for you to go to when you read them.

Hmmm, a poet to me is one who writes and can catch the reader at every corner <3