What's the difference between muse and poet?

Muse


Definition:

  • (n.) A gap or hole in a hedge, hence, wall, or the like, through which a wild animal is accustomed to pass; a muset.
  • (n.) One of the nine goddesses who presided over song and the different kinds of poetry, and also the arts and sciences; -- often used in the plural.
  • (n.) A particular power and practice of poetry.
  • (n.) A poet; a bard.
  • (n.) To think closely; to study in silence; to meditate.
  • (n.) To be absent in mind; to be so occupied in study or contemplation as not to observe passing scenes or things present; to be in a brown study.
  • (n.) To wonder.
  • (v. t.) To think on; to meditate on.
  • (v. t.) To wonder at.
  • (n.) Contemplation which abstracts the mind from passing scenes; absorbing thought; hence, absence of mind; a brown study.
  • (n.) Wonder, or admiration.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Rather than his extensive musings on art and politics, Morris is perhaps better known for his wallpaper and fabric designs of the late Victorian period.
  • (2) But if you have less financial support, that difference does hit you.” “As a generation, I don’t think we take enough interest in what’s going on,” she muses.
  • (3) There’s something rather Churchillian about him,” mused one of David Davis’s admirers in a recent TV profile.
  • (4) I might play him at centre-forward next time,” Hodgson mused.
  • (5) Cotton's interview with Paloma Faith on Tuesday in which the singer plugged her latest recording and mused about royal memorabilia such as a diamond jubilee sick bag has attracted particular criticism.
  • (6) Chris – lassoed from a parallel universe where Tom Cruise gave Hollywood a swerve to focus on taking his guitar-alt-musings to open mic spots instead – looks on, coldly dissecting technique and cutting to seduction tips.
  • (7) When the narrative voice ventriloquises the metamorphosed Gregor to muse "Was he an animal if music could captivate him so?
  • (8) Asked about the status of his own job, the press secretary joked “I’m right here”, telling reporters, in a belligerent line that could have been uttered by his impersonator Melissa McCarthy: “You can keep taking your selfies.” The president was busy sowing confusion by trying a new passive-aggressive tone on Twitter , musing: “While I greatly appreciate the efforts of President Xi & China to help with North Korea, it has not worked out.
  • (9) At first Sabry was just talking to his friends, posting idiosyncratic yarns or musings that gently push at social mores.
  • (10) With respect to the MUSE 11 antigen, positive incidence was found in 17 out of 26 pancreatic cancer patients (65%), and in 1 out of 13 chronic pancreatitis patients (8%).
  • (11) He muses that they may not have found the right approach.
  • (12) In the end it's maybe just cultural differences and an ability to align personal with corporate longer term goals," he muses.
  • (13) The cover art for the Cranberries' Bury the Hatchet (1999) was an evocation of paranoia – a giant eye bearing down on a crouching figure – that did neither band nor artist many favours; his image for Muse's Black Holes and Revelations (2006) amounted to a thin revival of his work for the Floyd that, if you were being generous, suggested a wry comment on that band's unconvincing attempts to revive the excesses of 1970s progressive rock.
  • (14) This article contains personal and professional musings on becoming and being an old woman.
  • (15) Twin muses of Liam Gallagher and Jimi Hendrix added up to louche tailoring, flower prints and urban staples like a swagger-tastic Gallagher parka.
  • (16) Mixed into that are musings on Darwin and the Catholic church, a tender reflection on the death of her dog Lolabelle, and more than a few corny jokes, delivered with her hypnotic, almost disbelieving pitch.
  • (17) But sadly, mainstream music culture has always thrived on competition, creating what the media always calls "catfights", says Kristin Hersh, now a solo artist, but in the 80s the frontwoman of the influential American band Throwing Muses.
  • (18) But then you might been seen as a separatist,” the presenter mused.
  • (19) And last week, he let his exasperation be known on Twitter – first taking aim at the Washington Post for quoting anonymous sources while musing about his future and then chastising NBC’s Today show for producing a political package from a tour he took of an embattled housing complex in Jacksonville, Florida, subsidized by the federal government.
  • (20) He mused: "It's a unique opportunity for a journalist to be in this environment.

Poet


Definition:

  • (n.) One skilled in making poetry; one who has a particular genius for metrical composition; the author of a poem; an imaginative thinker or writer.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) An untiring advocate of the joys and merits of his adopted home county, Bradbury figured Norfolk as a place of writing parsons, farmer-writers and sensitive poets: John Skelton, Rider Haggard, John Middleton Murry, William Cowper, George MacBeth, George Szirtes.
  • (2) Wood will play Brinnin, an American poet and literary scenester who was friends with Thomas as well as Truman Capote and Tennessee Williams.
  • (3) Back to my favourite Tunisian poet: “If, one day, a people desire to live, then fate will answer their call.
  • (4) In one of the best of the recent ones ( Shakespeare Unbound , 2007) René Weis has a cool and illuminatingly open-minded analysis of whether the earlier sonnets (including 20) are directed at the young and glamorous Earl of Southampton, the poet’s patron and possible love object.
  • (5) We don't have to be like the long-ago poet who once wrote : "Did you exist?
  • (6) It featured Adam Dalgliesh, the poet-policeman, and he seemed old-fashioned, too, intellectual and a trifle upper-class.
  • (7) Throughout his career he has continued to champion Crane, seeing him as the direct heir to Walt Whitman – Whitman being "not just the most American of poets but American poetry proper, our apotropaic champion against European culture" – and slayer of neo-Christian adversaries such as "the clerical TS Eliot" and the old New Critics, who were and are anathema to Bloom, unresting defender of the Romantic tradition.
  • (8) As a sports writer, he never missed a deadline, which was surprising for a poet.
  • (9) Liu Xia, a poet, has never been accused of a crime but has been under strict house arrest since shortly after the news that her husband had won the Nobel prize.
  • (10) By the time he joined the Army, he had begun to believe he was "more deep and true as a poet than a painter".
  • (11) He began his career as a professor at Yale, specialising in the Romantic poets.
  • (12) Perhaps, too, it’s the reason why another great Scottish poet, Hugh MacDiarmid, blew hot and cold about him.
  • (13) She said: "It is fascinating to see how we change as poets.
  • (14) The Welsh national poet, Gillian Clarke , puts it more succinctly.
  • (15) Before her detention, the poet told the Guardian she was not particularly interested in politics and seldom read her husband's works, adding: "But when you live with such a person, even if you don't care about politics, politics will care about you."
  • (16) One former Clifton College student, Stuart Delves, compared the relationship between students and some of the English teachers at the school in the late 60s and early 70s to the film Dead Poets Society.
  • (17) The international community must honour the dying wish of Nobel laureate Liu Xiaobo by taking immediate steps to protect his wife, the poet Liu Xia , who has endured years of government persecution, friends and supporters have said.
  • (18) The accused candidates include poet Vladimir Neklyayev, 64, and former deputy foreign minister, Andrei Sannikov, 56, who were both beaten by riot police during the protests.
  • (19) "All I had was the poet's name and a few lines of the poem.
  • (20) The group is named after Ezra Pound, the American poet who sided with Mussolini during the war.

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