Source : Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

Poet \Po"et\, n. [F. po["e]te, L. po["e]ta, fr. Gr. ?, fr. ? to
   make. Cf. {Poem}.]
   One skilled in making poetry; one who has a particular genius
   for metrical composition; the author of a poem; an
   imaginative thinker or writer.

         The poet's eye, in a fine frenzy rolling, Doth glance
         from heaven to earth, from earth to heaven. --Shak.

         A poet is a maker, as the word signifies. --Dryden.

   {Poet laureate}. See under {Laureate}.

Source : WordNet®

poet
     n : a writer of poems (the term is usually reserved for writers
         of good poetry)