id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt en-wikipedia-org-4394 Poet - Wikipedia .html text/html 1860 378 65 A poet is a person who creates poetry. A poet may simply be a writer of poetry, or may perform their art to an audience. A few poets such as John Gower and John Milton were able to write poetry in more than one language. Some Portuguese poets, as Francisco de Sá de Miranda, wrote not only in Portuguese but also in Spanish.[5] Jan Kochanowski wrote in Polish and in Latin,[6] France Prešeren and Karel Hynek Mácha[7] wrote some poems in German, although they were poets of Slovenian and Czech respectively. Poets of sacred verse[edit] Lyrical poets who write sacred poetry ("hymnographers") differ from the usual image of poets in a number of ways. Because hymns are perceived of as "worship" rather than "poetry," the term "artistic kenosis" is sometimes used to describe the hymnographer's success in "emptying out" the instinct to succeed as a poet. Wikimedia Commons has media related to poets. ./cache/en-wikipedia-org-4394.html ./txt/en-wikipedia-org-4394.txt