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Who is your favorite poet or poetess ever? Mine: Rumi

Who is your favorite poet or poetess ever?

Mine: Rumi

Syeda #questionnaire #poetry

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Annette

Hollie McNish

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David

Sylvia plath..John cooper clark..Kate Tempest..

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Tomi

Babits Mihály

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Lesley

Robert Frost and Walt Whitman

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Jenny

Rimbaud

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Josh

Dr. Seuss

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Siow

Rupi Kaur and @Carlina

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Rach

Emily Dickinson, Billy Collins, Judith Wright, John Keats.

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Don

Wallace Stevens? Elizabeth Bishop? Anne Sexton? Frank O’Hara? A E Housman? John Berryman?

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Maggie

Anna Akhmatova

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Ronnie

Kahlil Gibran, Robert Bly, Robert Lowell, Jane Kenyon, Boris Pasternak. Robert Frost. I have pilgrimaged to Jon Berryman’s Grave and had poetry read there.

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Ronnie

let me not forget Reynolds Price and Jim Harrison.

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Ronnie

let me say this about the poetry readings I have gone to lately. “self Indulgent pap…”

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SyedaQuestion author

I too like kahlil gibran’s poetry though havent read others enough..

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Ronnie

@Syeda he is a league of his own.

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Kristen

Ronnie Krishna It’s a certain style though too. It will depend if one likes this kind of poetry or not.

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Nancy

Robert Frost

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Siow

I like The Road Not Taken

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Kristen

Bob Dylan by far, followed by WH Auden, overall I love imagist poetry and objectivist poetry, Ezra pound did a lot for poetry, I love frank o haras my heart. What a poem.

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Pamela

Sharon Olds

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Bill

Wow. Hard to choose. I guess I will pick Edgar Allen Poe, but there are so many others I like: Robert Frost, Carl Sandberg, Lawrence Ferlinghetti, Walt Whitman…

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Katie

Robert Frost

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Jennifer

Newer Rupi Kaur or rh sihn (sp?)

Classic? Edgar allen poe

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Munya

Robert Frost…..

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Cecilia

Sara Teasdale

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Debby

Poe

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Kamila

Langston Hughes

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Peter

Plath

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Ashley

Edna St. Vincent Millay

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Chris

Yeats or Eliot

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Ronnie

both great poets,

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Ronnie

Ted Hughes

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Jerry

William Butler Yeats

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Wendy

If someone was new to poetry, what would be a good starter?

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Mo

Neruda or Langston Hughes

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Марија

Rabindranath Tagore

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Jason

Allen Ginsberg

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Linda

Charles Bukowski is my fave but also, Pablo Naruda, Langston Hughes, Joy Harjo.

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Joelle

I have many favorites but if I had to choose one I think it would be Robert Frost.

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Matt

Lemmy Kilmister

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Roshel

Lang leav.

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Ivy

Tagore

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Sandra

Ever.. Poe. In this time, Merritt Malloy

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Christine

Elizabeth Barrett Browning ans Robert Frost

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Christy

I love Rumi, too! What beautiful wisdom.

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Anjali

Rumi, Tagore, Frost

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Danielle

Poe

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David

Basho

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Kristen

Nice … haikus ❤️

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Shiela

e.e. cummings

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Vijayan

SWINBURNE

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Mo

Pablo Neruda, Octavio paz, Maya Angelou and Edna st Vincent Millay

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Helen

Claude Mckay

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Christina

Following this ??

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Dalitso

Lauryn hill

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Kristina

Currently falling in love with Hardy’s poetry

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Kristen

I love his prose better still, my favorite writer ❤️

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Kristina

@Kristen recently read Tess of the d’Urbervilles, his prose is lovely ?

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Kristen

Kristina Weber he discussed poetry with Ezra Pound I recently learned and I love the images in his poetry a lot

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Roy

Frost and Service

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Daniel

Yeats.

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Kristen

Rumi i loved in my teens when I was romantic still ❤️ he is great though

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Chirag

Rumi is Iranian?

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Kristen

@Chirag he is from greater Khorasan, a historical
region, so persian is the term I use

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Kimber

Poe, Frost, Tennyson, and a dear friend is a poet- Shefali Choksi.

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Neha

Khaled hossieni <3 <3

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Laura-Anne

Robert Frost

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Katharine

Don’t like poetry

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Chirag

William Blake

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Martine

Walt Whitman. Sylvia Plath. T.S.Eliot. John Donne.

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Shawn

For reference, the term poet applies to both the masculine and the feminine, so using poetess is not necessary.

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SyedaQuestion author

Ok thanku i didnot knew it before:)

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Shawn

@Syeda No worries, just trying to be helpful :}

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Prachi

Rumi

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Gokul

Robert Frost

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Christine

Robert frost

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Petunia

George orwell

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Tiffany

Edgar Allan Poe.

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Melanie

Dorothy Parker, Sylvia Plath, Edgar Allan Poe, Emily Dickinson, Charles Baudelaire.

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Souhila

rumi of course

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Shira

rumi ~ I also love Kahlil Gibran ~

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Monisha

Wordsworth …i am not really interested in poetry but I loved Wordsworth

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Graham

Walt Whitman

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