According to Osho, the poet stands at the threshold of Truth, receiving luminous glimpses and reflections, while the seer (rishi) dissolves into it, becoming one with the source. All seers are poets, but not all poets are seers; the passage requires meditation, discipline, and surrender of ego—moving from moon-in-the-pond reflections to the boundless sky of direct realization.
Poets get beautiful peeks of truth, but seers disappear into it and live there.