DEFINITION OF A POET

"A poet is a fellow who spends his time 
thinking about what it is that's wrong,
and although he knows that he can never 
quite find out what this wrong is, 
he goes right on thinking it out, and 
writing it down. A poet is a blind 
optimist. The world is against him for 
many reasons. But the poet persists. 
He believes that he is on the right track, 
no matter what any of his fellow men say. 
In his eternal search for truth, the poet 
is alone. He tries to be timeless in a society 
built on time."

~ Jack Kerouac (1941 - Nineteen years old)