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poet

noun as in person who writes expressive, rhythmic verse

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The attacker, an amateur poet in his 70s, claimed he only wanted to injure Fico in order to stop policies he believed were harming Slovakia.

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Suspicion initially fell on poet Guillaume Apollinaire and artist Pablo Picasso.

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Lee has been the unofficial poet laureate of Brooklyn for nearly four decades, since Do the Right Thing introduced the world to a block of Bedford-Stuyvesant on a scorching summer day.

Shakespeare was a poet, playwright, and actor born in 1564 in Stratford-upon-Avon and his plays are still performed all over the world.

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The celebrated novelist, poet and playwright was excluded from the library's reading room in 1895 over his charge for having had homosexual relationships, which was a criminal offence at the time.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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