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Author vs. Poet

Author and Poet Definitions

Author

The writer of a book, article, or other text.

Poet

A writer of poems.

Author

One who practices writing as a profession.

Poet

One who is especially gifted in the perception and expression of the beautiful or lyrical
"[He] was the bard of the bird feeder, the poet of the small and homey" (Bill McKibben).

Author

One who writes or constructs an electronic document or system, such as a website.

Poet

A person who writes poems.
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Author

An originator or creator, as of a theory or plan.

Poet

A person with a creative or romantic imagination.

Author

Author God.

Poet

One skilled in making poetry; one who has a particular genius for metrical composition; the author of a poem; an imaginative thinker or writer.
The poet's eye, in a fine frenzy rolling,Doth glance from heaven to earth, from earth to heaven.
A poet is a maker, as the word signifies.

Author

To write or be the author of (a published text).

Poet

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

To write or construct (an electronic document or system)
Authored the company's website.

Author

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.
Have you read any Corinthian authors?

Author

Someone who writes books for a living.

Author

Principal.

Author

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

Author

To create a work as its author.
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Author

The beginner, former, or first mover of anything; hence, the efficient cause of a thing; a creator; an originator.
Eternal King; thee, Author of all being.

Author

One who composes or writes a book; a composer, as distinguished from an editor, translator, or compiler.
The chief glory of every people arises from its authors.

Author

The editor of a periodical.

Author

An informant.

Author

To occasion; to originate.
Such an overthrow . . . I have authored.

Author

To tell; to say; to declare.
More of him I dare not author.

Author

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

Author

Someone who originates or causes or initiates something;
He was the generator of several complaints

Author

Be the author of;
She authored this play

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