frustrated poet

A frustrated poet, he often told her that she was living the life he'd always wanted.

Jeffrey is a frustrated poet who works in an advertising agency writing cosmetics ads.

Rodney is a frustrated poet and dramatist, who often subjects others to his mediocre works.

Thomas Berrigan was a frustrated poet and a bullying, tyrannical husband and father.

Other characters include Francesco, frustrated poet, chronicler and secretary to Ludivico.

'Frustrated poets,' said Arnold, gruffly.

Thomas Berrigan was a frustrated poet and a political radical whose labor organizing activities led to his dismissal as a railroad engineer, after which he moved to Syracuse.

'The city is too easily stereotyped as a bleak and industrial wasteland full of flat-capped frustrated poets and musos consoling themselves with endless amounts of ale.

Perhaps we simply underestimated the city's creative esprit - or the sheer number of frustrated poets - but within days our haiku team found itself flooded with poetic musings on the city.

He was born in 1808 in Marseille, the son of a glazier, picture-framer and frustrated poet who moved his family to Paris in 1816, hoping to establish himself as a writer.

He then spends what might be his last hours on Earth returning to his mortal roots as a frustrated poet, triumphantly knocking them dead (figuratively) in an open mic poetry slam at a bar.

Recently we read "The Anthologist," whose narrator is a frustrated poet debunking and describing his versified world in prose, and now on to "War Dances," a blending of poems and short stories.

A Fine Madness (1966) is a motion picture comedy based on the 1964 novel by Elliott Baker that tells the story of Samson Shillitoe, a frustrated poet unable to finish a grand tome.

He is also good company when he steps far off well-traveled footpaths, as in his hunt for the egoistic Viennese file clerk and frustrated poet Joseph Kyselak, whose ubiquitous graffiti predated Kilroy's by a century.

THE DECEMBERISTS - If Leonard Cohen turned to music because he was a frustrated poet, Colin Meloy of the Decemberists picked up the guitar because he was a failed short-story writer.