Which Poets Have Inspired you?

[JessicaLeigh]

Is it OK to say Dr. Seuss? "Oh, the Places You'll Go" is very inspiring.

Agreed!

I'm inspired & intrigued by Allen Ginsberg. Paul Lawrence Dunbar is a treasure.

My brother and I recite Frost and Poe to one another; with dramatic voice and gestures. It's great fun. I encourage all grown-ups to try it sometime

Jessica

[Sara MCR]

I don't really read poetry, but I had to read some for school, and that's how I started feeling great respect for some men.
I admire Jovan Jovanovic Zmaj as a poet and a wonderfull person.
He was from Serbia, and I don't know about good english translation.

[Ramona]

Robert Frost is the one who comes to mind first. I know there are others, but his "The Road Not Taken" has always been one of my favorite poems.

[KLewington]

Anything new. Older poets generally are dull but the beat poets are really inspirational.

[Emcdonaldx]

E.E. Cummings and Neil Hilborn are my two favorite poets they write such inspirational poems in a variety of different styles.

[poetryflies]

I'm a big fan of both Shane Koyczan and Andrea Gibson, both poets exhuberate so much passion with their work and don't hold back any emotions.

[Eponine]

The Romantic poets like Keats, Byron and Shelley! I love them.

[Xinceesay]

Have anybody heard about the Poet Vladimir Mayakovsky? Love his love poetry..

[GirlAloneWithHerself]

Wow. There are so many poets that inspire me

Dylan Thomas.
Anis Mojgani.
Selima Hill.
Rumi.
Pablo Neruda.
e.e. cummings.
Bukowski.
Jeffrey McDaniel.

Anyone who uses unusual images or has a playful approach to language is catnip to me

Girl.

[joanofarc2015]

I am obsessed with African American poetry because I consider them so deep. I also love Gwendolyn Brooks but Maya Angelou is my all-time favorite

[ndounkeu2016]

It's a french poem. The author is Alphonde de Lamartine: isolement

Un seul être vous manque et tout est dépeuplé!!!!

[Hildehraefen]

I recently picked up a small books of Kipling's poems, I reread "Gunga Din" which I had studied in high school. I had forgotten how moving that poem is, you start out reading thinking it's just some British soldier complaining and then it ends up being a moving commentary on humanity.

[Crodriguez]

A poem that has inspired me the most for the past years as a child was Annabel Lee from Edgar Allan Poe

[Frankfemez]

Kahlil Gibran poems widens your horizon i will go with him.

[Tamorie Hargro]

I don't really write poetry (though I'm in a poetry class right now, I'm a fiction writer), so I can't really say any poet as influenced me stylistically; however, I can say that William Butler Yeats was the poet to really get me to appreciate poetry. I'm happy to have been fortunate enough to have taken a class on his poetry.

Some of my favorite poems from Yeats are (links to poems included): The Song of Wandering Aengus, The Wild Swans at Coole, and The Lake Isle of Innisfree.