Famous poets

person who writes poetry

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John Milton

John Milton

1608 – 1674 · Age 65
Deceased
Nikolai Gogol

Nikolai Gogol

1809 – 1852 · Age 42
Deceased
Selma Lagerlöf

Selma Lagerlöf

1858 – 1940 · Age 81
Deceased
Euripides

Euripides

Deceased
Lewis Carroll

Lewis Carroll

1832 – 1898 · Age 65
Deceased
Ralph Waldo Emerson

Ralph Waldo Emerson

1803 – 1882 · Age 78
Deceased
Bertolt Brecht

Bertolt Brecht

1898 – 1956 · Age 58
Deceased
William Butler Yeats

William Butler Yeats

1865 – 1939 · Age 73
Deceased
Ho Chi Minh

Ho Chi Minh

1890 – 1969 · Age 79
Deceased
Robert Louis Stevenson

Robert Louis Stevenson

1850 – 1894 · Age 44
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Guy de Maupassant

Guy de Maupassant

1850 – 1893 · Age 42
Deceased
Giovanni Boccaccio

Giovanni Boccaccio

1313 – 1375 · Age 62
Deceased
Giordano Bruno

Giordano Bruno

1548 – 1600 · Age 52
Deceased
Alī ibn Abī Ṭālib

Alī ibn Abī Ṭālib

0599 – 0661 · Age 61
Deceased
Ivan Turgenev

Ivan Turgenev

1818 – 1883 · Age 64
Deceased
Jim Morrison

Jim Morrison

1943 – 1971 · Age 27
Deceased
Vladimir Nabokov

Vladimir Nabokov

1899 – 1977 · Age 78
Deceased
Aristophanes

Aristophanes

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Sappho

Sappho

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William Faulkner

William Faulkner

1897 – 1962 · Age 64
Deceased
Walt Whitman

Walt Whitman

1819 – 1892 · Age 72
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Martin Heidegger

Martin Heidegger

1889 – 1976 · Age 86
Deceased
Emily Dickinson

Emily Dickinson

1830 – 1886 · Age 55
Deceased
Ali Khamenei

Ali Khamenei

1939 – 2026 · Age 86
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Jean de La Fontaine

Jean de La Fontaine

1621 – 1695 · Age 73
Deceased
Source: Wikidata Q49757