What does it mean to be a poet?

Question

What are the qualifications required to be considered as a poet?

OK, but what defines a poet?

Sorry I can't choose a best answer, I found something in each response :)

Answer 1

To be a poet is not ordinary. To be a poet is communicating your mind in a very loquacious and artful way. Few have this ability.

POET !!! (smile)

Answer 2

There are no qualifications, licenses, or degrees required. If you write poetry, you are a poet. If you have the drive to create these beautiful works of art with your words, you are a poet. If you see the world and need to get it down on paper, you are a poet. I would never list being "famous" as a requirement for being a poet, particularly because most published poets nowadays are not household names!

Now, if you want to be a published poet then you will need to start submitting pieces to magazines or literary journals that accept poetry similar to what you write.

Answer 3

For me, being a poet is showing other's your perspective on the world. It's expressing yourself, unqiuely, with words. A poet can find the beauty and the ugly in everything.

Answer 4

To be a poet is to write poems. Especially ones that are well known and therefore you are' famous'. People refer to you as poets.

Answer 5

To be a poet means to share your views on anything. To share them, and to make art out of them.

Answer 6

When you are doing dishes, you are a dishwasher.
When you are writing poetry you are a poet.

Answer 7

no qualifications; just be able to quench ppl's thoughts and make them THINK!!