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a sniper of language, killing whole feelings with a single perfect word
means A person who writes poetry — verse that compresses meaning, sound, and feeling into deliberate, often beautiful language.
from From the Greek 'poietes,' meaning 'a maker' or 'creator,' built on the verb 'poiein,' 'to make.' The poet was literally a maker of things — words assembled like a craftsman assembles wood. It reached English through Latin 'poeta' and Old French 'poete.' So the original poet wasn't a dreamer in a garret but a fabricator, someone who builds: the language remembers that poems are made, not merely felt.
- old job
- Greek poets were paid public memory-keepers and propagandists
- laureate pay
- UK poet laureate once got an annual cask of wine
- brain wiring
- reading poetry lights up the brain's reward centers
- dangerous trade
- poets have been jailed and exiled for verses
- oldest author
- Enheduanna, a priestess, is history's first named writer
homer — ancient greek author of the iliad and odyssey, 8th century bce
william shakespeare — english poet and playwright, wrote 154 sonnets and 37 plays, 1564-1616
emily dickinson — american poet from amherst, massachusetts, wrote 1,800+ poems in the 1800s
pablo neruda — chilean poet, wrote twenty love poems and a song of despair, nobel prize 1971