What's the difference between poet and scribbler?

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.

Scribbler


Definition:

  • (n.) One who scribbles; a petty author; a writer of no reputation; a literary hack.
  • (n.) A scribbling machine.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Ideas matter – cue the cliche from JM Keynes about business people responding to the notions of some long-dead scribbler.
  • (2) For six decades, he had been what he called "a scribbler".
  • (3) At Girls Inc we focus on fueling girls’ self-worth through helping them overcome obstacles and set and achieve goals.” Read more Oddly Sustainable : Surprising solutions to environmental dilemmas Rhino-saving drones, smashable coffee cups and more Getting a charge in Vegas that’s good for your wallet Powering your computer with cigarette butts Russ Blinch is chief scribbler at CopyCarbon.com and a blogger for the Huffington Post.
  • (4) The only comparable performance of the era is Burt Lancaster ’s as JJ Hunsecker in Sweet Smell of Success (1957), another satanic scribbler with poison in his veins and his pen.
  • (5) Autodesk SketchBook was one of the best yet, with plenty of depth yet an accessible interface for the scribblers among us.
  • (6) SketchBook Pro SKETCHBOOK PRO £2.99 Published by computer graphics veteran Autodesk, SketchBook has quickly found a wide audience of casual scribblers and professional artists alike.
  • (7) More Oddly Sustainable posts: Surprising solutions to environmental dilemmas Getting a charge in Vegas that’s good for your wallet Powering your computer with cigarette butts A gold-rush retailer’s thoroughly modern social impact move Russ Blinch is chief scribbler at CopyCarbon.com and a blogger for the Huffington Post.
  • (8) But, as it happens, I am pretty sure it is one that my darling and brilliant late wife would advance, partly because as a historian she had a deep understanding of the role of scribblers in the creation and advance of our democracy, and partly because – despite everything – she never dumped the bleedin' Daily Mail.
  • (9) For what it’s worth, this scribbler would merely have loved to see him test his skills against Joe Louis.
  • (10) She exposed just how lamentably ill-equipped our society is when dealing with scientific advances, a field of endeavour that attracts our best brains but remains closed to most individuals, no matter how hard we science scribblers try to interest them.
  • (11) Read more Oddly Sustainable posts: Surprising solutions to environmental dilemmas Rhino-saving drones, smashable coffee cups and more A gold-rush retailer’s thoroughly modern social impact move Powering your computer with cigarette butts Russ Blinch is chief scribbler at CopyCarbon.com and a blogger for the Huffington Post.
  • (12) And that’s something that all of us, at every level and every function, can use more of.” Russ Blinch is chief scribbler at CopyCarbon.com and a blogger for the Huffington Post.
  • (13) As Keynes observed of “madmen in authority”, the present government is “distilling its frenzy from some academic scribbler of a few years back” – in this case the ideology of the so-called Washington Consensus, with its cult of competition and markets and its absurd belief in rational choice.
  • (14) Read more Oddly Sustainable posts: Surprising solutions to environmental dilemmas Rhino-saving drones, smashable coffee cups and more Getting a charge in Vegas that’s good for your wallet A gold-rush retailer’s thoroughly modern social impact move Powering your computer with cigarette butts Russ Blinch is chief scribbler at CopyCarbon.com and a blogger for the Huffington Post.
  • (15) Read more from Oddly Sustainable : Surprising solutions to environmental dilemmas Rhino-saving drones, smashable coffee cups and more Getting a charge in Vegas that’s good for your wallet A gold-rush retailer’s thoroughly modern social impact move Russ Blinch is chief scribbler at CopyCarbon.com and a blogger for the Huffington Post.
  • (16) Another scribbler compared the challenge facing Greece to the 12 labours of Hercules.

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