Poetry
- Sappho -- Greek poetess from the island of Lesbos who wrote love poetry to young women
- Ovid -- Roman erotic poet
- Catullus -- Roman erotic poet
- Cavafy Constantine P. --20th century Greek poet. His sensual poems are filled with the lyricism and emotion of same-sex love; inspired by recollection and remembrance.
- Sextus Propertius -- Roman poet
- Petrarch -- Italian poet, considered, together with Dante, the father of Renaissance. His love sonnets dedicated to Laura are masterpieces of erotic poetry.
- Bai Juyi-- romantic poet of the Tang dynasty
- King Solomon--author, according to Judeo-Christian tradition, of the Song of Songs.
- John Wilmot, 2nd Earl of Rochester -- British 17th century libertine
- Hồ Xuân Hương -- 18th-19th century Vietnamese poetess
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Famous quotes containing the word poetry:
“That’s why I quit and took up writing poetry instead.
It’s clean, it’s relaxing, it doesn’t squirt juice all over
Something you were certain of a minute ago and now your own face
Is a stranger and no one can tell you it’s true. Hey, stupid!”
—John Ashbery (b. 1927)
“The good, supreme, divine poetry is above the rules and reason. Whoever discerns its beauty with a firm, sedate gaze does not see it, any more than he sees the splendor of a lightning flash. It does not persuade our judgement, it ravishes and overwhelms it.”
—Michel de Montaigne (1533–1592)
“The foregoing generations beheld God and nature face to face; we, through their eyes. Why should not we also enjoy an original relation to the universe? Why should not we have a poetry and philosophy of insight and not of tradition, and a religion by revelation to us, and not the history of theirs?”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)