A poet is a person who writes poetry. Arthur Rimbaud said that "A poet makes himself a visionary through a long, boundless, and systematized disorganization of all the senses. All forms of love, of suffering, of madness; he searches himself, he exhausts within himself all poisons, and preserves their quintessences. Unspeakable torment, where he will need the greatest faith, a superhuman strength, where he becomes all men the great invalid, the great criminal, the great accursed--and the Supreme Scientist! For he attains the unknown! Because he has cultivated his soul, already rich, more than anyone! He attains the unknown, and if, demented, he finally loses the understanding of his visions, he will at least have seen them! So what if he is destroyed in his ecstatic flight through things unheard of, unnameable: other horrible workers will come; they will begin at the horizons where the first one has fallen!"
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A poet is a person who writes poetry. Arthur Rimbaud said that "A poet makes himself a visionary through a long, boundless, and systematized disorganization of all the senses. All forms of love, of suffering, of madness; he searches himself, he exhausts within himself all poisons, and preserves their quintessences. Unspeakable torment, where he will need the greatest faith, a superhuman strength, where he becomes all men the great invalid, the great criminal, the great accursed--and the Supreme Scientist! For he attains the unknown! Because he has cultivated his soul, already rich, more than anyone! He attains the unknown, and if, demented, he finally loses the understanding of his visions, he will at least have seen them! So what if he is destroyed in his ecstatic flight through things unheard of, unnameable: other horrible workers will come; they will begin at the horizons where the first one has fallen!"
Etymology
From the ancient Greek : ποιέω, poieō : "I make or compose" ; ποιητης, poïêtes : "artisan, creator, maker (also makar), author, poet" > Latin : poēta : "poet, author" > Old French : (1200-1400) poëte or poète > Used (poet) in 14th. century, in classical English language, for all sorts of writers or composers of works of literature. The term makar, which is another older term for poet, is a calque from the Greek.
The Ancient Greek
has some of the richest poetry in ancient history, including that of Homer, Sappho, Pindar, Alcaeus of Mytilene, Anacreon, Apollonius of Rhodes, Aratus, Archilochus, Arctinus of Miletus, Arion, Aristophanes, Aeschylus, Euripides, Epicharmus of Kos, Epimenides, Herodotus, Hesiod, Mimnermus, Philitas of Cos, Simonides of Ceos, Solon, Sophocles, Terpander, Theognis of Megara, Tyrtaeus and Xenophanes.
The Ancient Tamil language
has a rich and long literary tradition since the ancient period. Famous poets include Tiruvalluvar, Agastya, Nakkirar, Seethalai Saathanar, Peyalvar, Ilango Adigal, Arunagirinathar,Appar, Manikkavacakar, Tirumular, Karaikkal Ammeiyar, Sekkizhar, Thirunavukarasar, Avvaiyar, Ramalinga Adigal, Subramanya Bharathi, Bharathidasan, Kalki Krishnamurthy, Kannadasan, Vairamuthu, Vaali
In Arabic
the most notable poets include Al-Ma`arri, Al-Mutanabbi, Abu Nuwas, Ahmed Shawqi, Khalil Gibran, Mahmoud Darwish.
The Bengali language
has been used by many poets including Rabindranath Tagore and Kazi Nazrul Islam.
The Bulgarian language
has been used by poets like Hristo Botev, Ivan Vazov, Pencho Slaveikov, Peyo Yavorov, Dimcho Debelyanov, Hristo Smirnenski, Geo Milev, Atanas Dalchev, Elisaveta Bagriana and many others.
The Chinese language
claims great poets such as Li Bai, Du Fu, Wang Wei, Li Qingzhao, Qu Yuan, Shitao, Bei Dao, Xue Tao, Yu Xuanji, Su Xiaoxiao, Lu You, Ouyang Xiu, Mei Yaochen, Gu Cheng, Li He, Bai Juyi, Su Shi, Yang Lian, Qiu Jin, Mao Zedong, and Cao Zhi.
