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:
“The science of Humboldt is one thing, poetry is another thing. The poet to-day, notwithstanding all the discoveries of science, and the accumulated learning of mankind, enjoys no advantage over Homer.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)
“Most people ignore most poetry
because
most poetry ignores most people.”
—Adrian Mitchell (b. 1932)
“It is at the same time by poetry and through poetry, by and through music, that the soul glimpses the splendors found behind the tomb; and when an exquisite poem brings tears to one’s eyes, these tears are not the sign of excessive pleasure, they are rather witness to an irritated melancholy, to a condition of nerves, to a nature exiled to imperfection and which would like to seize immediately, on this very earth, a revealed paradise.”
—Charles Baudelaire (1821–1867)