Poetry was always very important to me. I spent hours trying to write my own, but ended simply reading good poetry in books. The following are my favorite poets listed alphabetically.

Alighieri, Dante

Blake, Matthew

Byron, Lord George Gordon

Cummings, E.E.

Dickinson, Emily

Donne, John

Eliot, T.S.

Frost, Robert

Gibran, Kahlil

Keats, John

Khayyam, Omar

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

Milton, John

Roethke, Theodore

Shakespeare, William (yes, he wrote more than plays)

Shelley, Percy Bysshe

Thomas, Dylan

Whitman, Walt

Wordsworth, William