Of course, there are poetic thinkers and thinking poets

A thinker may be a poet, and a poet would be a thinker too.

And either of them should be effective speakers and writers

Thoughts and poetry evolve in the mind but they reach their consummation only when they reach the audience either as expressed in voice or in words written

The poet is emotional, and even his intellect would give way to his softer feelings.. The thinker on the contrary is an intellectual, who would use words, verse, languge and all that is at his disposal to express his thoughts in the most undistorted way

For a poet, the words, the sound, the vocbulary, and the cadence are all vital.. and he can use thoughts and ideas that would accommodate the emotions and the phonetic output he expects out of his own poetry.

The thinker is not under such obligation.. All that matters is the pristine purity of his thoughts, and all that he would care is that such thoughts reach the audience in the shape and form intended for them when they germinated in his intellectual plane

Of course, to straightjacket a person as a thinker denying him all gifts for poetry, or to presume that the poet wants only sounds and soft emotions and does not possess any serious thoughts to convery, is an injustice.

The thinker would be rather blunt, he may eschew similes and omymoron.. he may not be bound by meters or ornamentation in diction.. He just wants to tell clearly what he wanted to tell

The poet on the contrary love to see his audience read, hear, enjoy and get into higher plance of ecstacy, even without caring for the exact meaning of the words that have been used to build up that thing of beauty

We require both.. The thinker and the poet

Who is better? No one can say

Of course, there are poetic thinkers and thinking poets..