What's the difference between poet and writer?

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.

Writer


Definition:

  • (n.) One who writes, or has written; a scribe; a clerk.
  • (n.) One who is engaged in literary composition as a profession; an author; as, a writer of novels.
  • (n.) A clerk of a certain rank in the service of the late East India Company, who, after serving a certain number of years, became a factor.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Her novels have an enduring and universal appeal and she is recognised as one of the greatest writers in English literature.
  • (2) "The best artists, the best writers, the best directors are coming from movies and into television.
  • (3) The award for nonfiction went to New Yorker staff writer Evan Osnos for his book on modern China, Age of Ambition .
  • (4) Superman fans are up in arms at the decision of the publisher to appoint a noted anti-gay writer to pen the Man of Steel's latest adventures.
  • (5) Jeanne Haffner is a historian and writer based in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
  • (6) 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.
  • (7) The writer Palesa Morudu told me that she sees, in the South African pride that "we did it", a troubling anxiety that we can't: "Why are we celebrating that we built stadiums on time?
  • (8) Louis CK is exploding a few myths about one of pop culture's most hallowed spaces, the sitcom writers' room.
  • (9) From a study bearing upon 26 patients suffering from a cerebral circulatory insufficiency induced by a stenosis or a thrombosis, the writers analyse the part played by Hyperbare Oxygen in the neurologic evolution.
  • (10) "What this proves is that the way Bowie engineered his comeback was a stroke of genius," said music writer Simon Price.
  • (11) Limits are a relief, because they concentrate the drama and free the writer from the torture of choice, as Aristotle knew when he advised playwrights to preserve "the unities" by telling one story in one place over a single day.
  • (12) The writer John Lanchester concedes that democracies will always need spies, but reading the Snowden documents persuaded him that piecing together habits of thought from internet searches takes things far beyond conventional spying: “Google doesn’t just know you’re gay before you tell your mum; it knows you’re gay before you do.
  • (13) For a writer barely out of his teens when it was published, in 1946, the book was an unusual achievement.
  • (14) Curriculum writers and instructors of preservice elementary teachers could be more effective if they were aware of this group's beliefs about school-related AIDS issues.
  • (15) He added: "There will be all sorts of science fiction writers who will give their own opinions on what this means, but we don't want to enter that game."
  • (16) "Obviously [writers in translation] have a disadvantage and there's no sense pretending they don't, of being read in translation," said Gekoski.
  • (17) Most of what we know about it comes from the accounts given by the Roman writers Polybius (c200-118BC) and Livy (59BC-AD17).
  • (18) Do you feel you were thought of at one stage as a political writer, at a very early stage?
  • (19) • +33 2 98 50 10 12, hotel-les-sables-blancs.com , doubles from €105 room only Hôtel Ty Mad, Douarnenez Hôtel Ty Mad In the 1920s the little beach and fishing village of Douarnenez was a favourite haunt of the likes of Pablo Picasso and writer and artist Max Jacob.
  • (20) This affected the outcome of the study so that the differences of the two groups of patients were not as significant as perceived by the writer.