A poet is a person who writes poetry.
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From the ancient Greek : ποιέω, poieō : "I make or compose" ; ποιητης, poïêtes : "artisan, creator, maker (also makar), author, poet" > Latin : poēta : "poet, author" > Old French : (1200-1400) poëte or poète > Used (poet) in 14th. century, in classical English language, for all sorts of writers or composers of works of literature. The term makar, which is another older term for poet, is a calque from the Greek.
 The Chinese poem "Quatrain on Heavenly Mountain" by 宋高宗. |
 Illustration from كتاب الأغاني Book of Songs by أبو الفرج الأصفهاني. (1216-20) |
 The Concourse of the Birds painted by Habib Allah for Farid ud-Din Attar poems. (1486–87) |
 Tiziano Vecellio's "Danae", inspired by the Metamorphoses of Ovidius. (1553-54) |
 Faust depicted in an etching by Rembrandt van Rijn. (1650) |
 The poet Yacuren and a companion strolling in a grove of yew trees, by 歌川国芳. |
 A Norse mythology image from the 18th century Prose Edda manuscript. |
 "The Ghost of a Flea" by William Blake. (1820) |
 "Der arme Poet", by Carl Spitzweg. (1839) |
 Illustration for the cover of Christina Rossetti's Goblin Market and Other Poems, by Dante Gabriel Rossetti. (1862) |
 Wood engraving named "Farinata degli Uberti addresses Dante" from a Gustave Doré's illustrations to the Divine Comedy. (1861-1868) |
 "Le Coin de table", by Henri Fantin-Latour. (1872) |
 Édouard Manet's illustration of Poe's Raven. (1875) |
 One of Henry Holiday's illustrations to Lewis Carroll's The Hunting of the Snark. |
 "Sappho and Alcaeus of Mytilene", by Lawrence Alma-Tadema. (1881) |
 Lucifer, the main protagonist of Paradise Lost, as drawn by Gustave Doré. |
 "Favourite Poete", by Lawrence Alma-Tadema. (1888) |
 Akashi Gidayu, No 83 100 Aspects of the Moon Series by 月岡 芳年. (1890) |
 "Le Poète et la Muse", by Auguste Rodin. |
 The Dinky Bird, by Maxfield Parrish, an illustration from Poems of Childhood by Eugene Field. (1904) |
 "At the Tomb of Omar Khayyam", by Jay Hambidge. (?-1911) |
 Apollinaire's calligramme. (1918) |
 村山 槐多's Self Portrait. (1918) |
 "Dancing Girl", an undated ink-on-paper piece by Rabindranath Tagore. |
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