Poet

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A poet is a person who writes poetry. This is usually influenced by a cultural and intellectual tradition. Some consider the best poetry to be, to some extent, timeless and universal, and to address issues common to all humanity; others are more absorbed by its particular, personal and ephemeral qualities. Other qualities like life problems might also help a poet stand out.

Nearly every language has had a poet, or poets, who have had a tremendous impact in literary history.

The Bengali language has been used by many poets including Rabindranath Tagore and Kazi Nazrul Islam.

In the Chinese language there are such literary geniuses as Li Bai, Du Fu, Wang Wei, Li Qingzhao, Qu Yuan, 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 and Cao Zhi.

In the English language, poets generally considered to be of the most influential include Geoffrey Chaucer, William Shakespeare, Emily Dickinson, John Milton, John Donne, William Blake, William Wordsworth,Samuel Taylor Coleridge, John Keats, Walt Whitman, Alfred, Lord Tennyson, Christina Rossetti, W. B. Yeats, Marianne Moore, Elizabeth Bishop, Gertrude Stein, T. S. Eliot, Ezra Pound, Hart Crane, Wallace Stevens, W.H. Auden, Sylvia Plath, May Swenson, Robert Frost, and Anne Carson.

The French language possesses illustrious poets as François Villon, Pierre de Ronsard, Jean de La Fontaine, Gérard de Nerval, Victor Hugo, Paul Verlaine, Arthur Rimbaud, Camille Lemonnier, Charles Baudelaire, Alfred Jarry, Stéphane Mallarmé, Paul Claudel, Paul Valery, Guillaume Apollinaire, André Breton, René Daumal , Pierre Louÿs, Paul Éluard, Jacques Prévert, Robert Desnos, Gaston Miron, Saint-John Perse, Antonin Artaud, Maurice Maeterlinck, René Char, Anne Hebert, Félix Leclerc, Henri Michaux and Aimé Césaire.

The German language carries the great works of Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Gottfried August Bürger, Heinrich Heine, Friedrich Nietzsche, Novalis, Friedrich von Schiller, Friedrich Holderlin, Georg Trakl, Rainer Maria Rilke, Adalbert Stifter and Paul Celan.

The Greek language has a long line of poets including Homer, Sappho, Pindar, George Seferis, and Cavafy.

Late shri Harilal Upadhyay was a Gujarati Author and he had also work in the field of poetry also. In fact he have started his career as a poet only and he was known as Haribhai Kavi (Kavi=Poet in Gujarati).

In the Italian language there is Dante, Ludovico Ariosto, Gabriele D\'Annunzio , Petrarch, Salvatore Quasimodo, Ludovico Ariosto, Giambattista Basile, Torquato Tasso and Giacomo Leopardi.

The Kurdish Language has a range of Poets including the creative genius and its most influencial Nalî, others include the father of Kurdish Literature Ehmedê Xanî and the founder of modern Kurdish Poetry Abdulla Goran.

In the Portuguese Language you can find the masterworks of Bocage, Cesário Verde, Florbela Espanca, Sophia de Mello Breyner, Antero de Quental, Fernando Pessoa and Luís de Camões.

The Persian language owns a few of the more popular poets who are still widely read today. These include Rumi, Forough Farrokhzad, Ahmad Shamlou, and Omar Khayyam.

The great modern Polish poets include Wislawa Szymborska and Czeslaw Milosz.

In Romanian language Mihai Eminescu, Nicolae Labis, George Cosbuc, Ana Blandiana.

The Russian language can be represented by Alexander Pushkin, Anna Akhmatova, Mikhail Lermontov, Marina Tsvetayeva and Boris Pasternak, svetlana savrasova.

The Spanish language is vibrant with the words of Sor Juana, Federico Garcia Lorca, Pablo Neruda, Octavio Paz, Gabriela Mistral, Ernesto Cardenal, Nicanor Parra, Giannina Braschi, Jorge Borges and Rubén Darío.

The Urdu language, known for its poetry, carries the beautiful work of Ghalib, Iqbal, Faiz,Irshad Ullah-Khan and others.rus:поэт, поэтесса

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