-- Wallace Stevens
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According to the Poetry Foundation, Wallace Stevens (1879 - 1955) is one of America’s most respected 20th century poets. He was a master stylist, employing an extraordinary vocabulary and a rigorous precision in crafting his poems. But he was also a philosopher of aesthetics, vigorously exploring the notion of poetry as the supreme fusion of the creative imagination and objective reality.
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Neil Gaiman (1960 - ) is a prolific English author who spans multiple genres. His work is on my TBR.
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Matshona Dhliwayo(1982 - ) is a Canadian-based philosopher, entrepreneur, and author of books such as The Art of Winning, The Little Book of Inspiration, 100 Lessons Every Great Man Wants You to Know, Dinner with King Solomon and Lalibela's Wise Man.
-- Robert Pirsig
-- Henry David Thoreau
-- Seamus Heaney
We will rise from the gold-limbed
hills of the west,
we
will rise from the windswept northeast
where
our forefathers first realized revolution
We
will rise from the lake-rimmed cities of the midwestern states,
we
will rise from the sunbaked south
We
will rebuild, reconcile and recover
and
every known nook of our nation and
every
corner called our country,
our
people diverse and beautiful will emerge,
battered
and beautiful
When
day comes, we step out of the shade,
aflame
and unafraid
The
new dawn blooms as we free it
For
there is always light,
if
only we’re brave enough to see it
If
only we’re brave enough to be it
-- Amanda Gorman
-- Martin Luther King
-- Eleanor Roosevelt
-- Melody Beattie
-- Zora Neale Hurston
― Barbara Kingsolver
-- Maya Angelou
-- Elbert Hubbard
-- Martin Luther King
-- Corazon Aquino
-- F. Scott Fitzgerald
