Author vs. Poet

Author vs. Poet — Is There a Difference?
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Difference Between Author and Poet

Authornoun

The originator or creator of a work, especially of a literary composition.

The copyright of any original writing belongs initially and properly to its author.

Poetnoun

A person who writes poems.

Authornoun

(with definite article: "the author") I, me. used in academic articles instead of a first-person pronoun.

Have you read any Corinthian authors?

Poetnoun

A person with a creative or romantic imagination.

Authornoun

Someone who writes books for a living.

Poetnoun

a writer of poems (the term is usually reserved for writers of good poetry)

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Authornoun

(obsolete) One's authority for something: an informant.

Authorverb

To create a work as its author.

Authornoun

writes (books or stories or articles or the like) professionally (for pay)

Authornoun

someone who originates or causes or initiates something;

he was the generator of several complaints

Authorverb

be the author of;

She authored this play