Favorite Poets, I'm sure you all have at least one, maybe two, maybe more! Options

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My personal favorite is Dorothy Parker. She has such wit and biting sarcasm and a unique style, especially for her day and age. She was happy in her unhappiness, a total walking contradiction. She was one of the first writers of The New Yorker.

I could really go on for days. She has been a constant source of inspiration, both as a brilliant writer and as a woman of strength and undeniable character.

One of my favorite poems:

Bohemia

Authors and actors and artists and such
Never know nothing, and never know much.
Sculptors and singers and those of their kidney
Tell their affairs from Seattle to Sydney.
Playwrights and poets and such horses' necks
Start off from anywhere, end up at sex.
Diarists, critics, and similar roe
Never say nothing, and never say no.
People Who Do Things exceed my endurance;
God, for a man that solicits insurance!

For more information:
Dorothy Parker Society

List yours if you have favorites (I'm sure someone has to!) If you could, write a little about them. What makes them your favorite? Have they inspired you? Perhaps share a favorite poem.

(I'm sure this has been done before, but a fresh one isn't such a terrible thing, is it?)

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^^ I agree, Sylvia Plath...incredible.

I also do enjoy e.e. cummings, as you can probably tell from my sig...

but if a living dance upon dead minds
why,it is love;but at the earliest spear
of sun perfectly should disappear
moon's utmost magic,or stones speak or one
name control more incredible splendor than
our merely universe, love's also there:
and being here imprisoned,tortured here
love everywhere exploding maims and blinds
(but surely does not forget,perish, sleep
cannot be photographed,measured;disdains
the trivial labelling of punctual brains...
-Who wields a poem huger than the grave?
from only Whom shall time no refuge keep
though all the weird worlds must be opened?