poet

I think a poet is like a sculptor that is always forced to sculpt using Lego.

>exactly the kind of language that an artist or poet wouldn't want to learn // Are you a poet?

She worked with it with the ear of a poet, spent decades working on it, throughout her writing career.

It's good for programmers but also exactly the kind of language that an artist or poet wouldn't want to learn.

It was never a principle we committed to at all costs, despite what one poet might have thought.

La Fontaine at least plagiarized him and then became a famous french poet.

I think it's important to note that Lucretius was a poet not a philosopher or scientist.

Poetry is not the a mere form with some vague meaning, it is these sudden insights and some structure a poet gives to it.

I would be more inclined to call Rand a poet and Marx an economist.

Remember also Van Gogh and millions of other starving artists you have and haven't heard of (quick, name a poet who cashed in on their life's work).

For a poet it is a process of verbalization of non-verbal insights (side-effects of conditioning), for a reader it is recognition of ones own insights from someone else's verbalizations.

No one makes money from poetry because as soon as a poet makes money they are something else: a musician, a performer, a copy-writer, whatever.

The editing part of "poet" looks good, but it seems like one of those tools that might suffer from being overly developed.

For example, I suspect the panhandler at my freeway onramp is socially rejected, at least by most, its just "we" will never hear about him unless he becomes a famous painter or poet.

There’s an ‘undecidable conflict’ between the poet’s desire to make an alternative world and, as Grossman puts it, ‘resistance to alternative making inherent in the materials of which any world must be composed’" Or, for that matter, the desire to transcend/reshape a current market we sometimes name as the entrepreneurial impulse.

Just don't call them a "poet", because "poets" are poor, sad people with no future, just as "programmers" are neckbearded nerdboys who smell bad, and no matter how many programmers (or poets) fail to live up to those stereotypes people will continue to impose them on reality come hell or high water.

Charles Lamb said he loved to lend his books to ‘Poet, Metaphysician, Bard’ Coleridge because he would return them with annotations more interesting then the book itself.