" That's a poet.'
'I thought you said it was a bo-at.'
'Stupid pet! Don't you know what a poet it?'
'Why, a thing to sail on the water in.'
'Well, perhaps you're not so far wrong. Some poets do carry people over the sea....'
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'A poet is a man who is glad of something, and tries to make other people glad of it too. "
― George MacDonald , At the Back of the North Wind