Poets
- July 12, New Poets
- July 13, Gary Snyder
- July 14, John Wieners
- July 15, Jack Spicer
- July 16, Robert Duncan
- July 17, Robin Blaser, George Stanley and Richard Duerden
- July 19, New Poets
- July 20, Robert Creeley
- July 21, Allen Ginsberg
- July 22, LeRoi Jones
- July 23, Charles Olson
- July 24, Ron Loewinsohn, Joanne Kyger and Lew Welch
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“The use of symbols has a certain power of emancipation and exhilaration for all men. We seem to be touched by a wand, which makes us dance and run about happily, like children. We are like persons who come out of a cave or cellar into the open air. This is the effect on us of tropes, fables, oracles, and all poetic forms. Poets are thus liberating gods.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)
“When shall we see poets born? After a time of disasters and great misfortunes, when harrowed nations begin to breathe again. And then, shaken by the terror of such spectacles, imaginations will paint things entirely strange to those who have not witnessed them.”
—Denis Diderot (1713–1784)
“The poets were not alone in sanctioning myths, for long before the poets the states and the lawmakers had sanctioned them as a useful expedient.... They needed to control the people by superstitious fears, and these cannot be aroused without myths and marvels.”
—Strabo (c. 58 B.C.–c. 24 A.D., Greek geographer. Geographia, bk. 1, sct. 2, subsct. 8.