“The powerful play goes on and you may contribute a verse.”
Walt Whitman book Fulles d'herba
Source: Leaves of Grass
“The powerful play goes on and you may contribute a verse.”
Walt Whitman book Fulles d'herba
Source: Leaves of Grass
Ram Dass (1931–2019) American contemporary spiritual teacher and the author of the 1971 book Be Here Now
Vyjayanthimala (1936) Indian actress, politician & dancer
By N. Murali in "Vyjayanthimala Bali a copybook of Bharatanatyam".
John Livingston Lowes (1867–1945) American academic
Nation (February 1916)
Robert Frost (1874–1963) American poet
Dedication (1960)
Context: Today is for my cause a day of days.
And his be poetry's old-fashioned praise
Who was the first to think of such a thing.
This verse that in acknowledgement I bring
Goes back to the beginning of the end
Of what had been for centuries the trend;
A turning point in modern history.
Robert Pinsky (1940) American poet, editor, literary critic, academic.
What is a good book about short line in ballad metre? The Collected Poems of Emily Dickinson.
The Art of Poetry - interview 1995 with Downing & Kunitz
Jorge Luis Borges (1899–1986) Argentine short-story writer, essayist, poet and translator, and a key figure in Spanish language literature
"Averroës' Search" (1949)
Arthur Hugh Clough (1819–1861) English poet
Youth and Age http://whitewolf.newcastle.edu.au/words/authors/C/CloughArthurHugh/verse/poemsproseremains/youthage.html, st. 1.