And indeed, his postcard did draw from Walter a letter recommending his friend, the poet Nicolas Manas, to his friend Meredith Wilder.

Ballet dancer: Protests, tears, and `` take what you want, Nicolas, I am a dancer, you are a poet, it is all beautiful ''.

She began to explain, `` There was this poet, in Italy '' He interrupted, `` Please don't judge all poets ''.

Or the mode of love to this fragment by a recent poet: `` Know ye, fair folk who dwell on earth Or shall hereafter come to birth, That here, with dust upon his eyes, Iraj, the sweet-tongued singer, lies.

Others, less consciously but quite probably influenced by the trends of the times, experiment with approaches that parallel those of the contemporary poet, painter, and musician.

If Wilhelm Reich is the Moses who has led them out of the Egypt of sexual slavery, Dylan Thomas is the poet who offers them the Dionysian dialectic of justification for their indulgence in liquor, marijuana, sex, and jazz.

One beat poet composes a poem, `` Lines On A Tijuana John '', which contains a few happy hints for survival.

How is the beat poet to achieve unity of form when he is at the same time engaged in a systematic derangement of senses.

Of these there are surely few that would be more rewarding discoveries than Verner Von Heidenstam, the Swedish poet and novelist who received the award in 1916 and whose centennial was celebrated two years ago.

The contributors to this testament were all well-known: a former Democratic candidate for President, a New Deal poet, the magazine's chief editorial writer, two newspaper columnists, head of a national broadcasting company, a popular Protestant evangelist, etc..

He is the stern guardian of the status quo who has raised the utilitarian structures of the age, and he is the revolutionary poet with a gun in his hand who writes a tragic apologetic to posterity for the men he has killed.

To play the guitar as he aspires will devour his three-fold energy as a historian, a poet and a singer.

The heart of this great poet constantly bubbles forth a generous joy of life -- with or without the guitar ''.

`` He wanted Mr. Sandburg to pose with one of the guitars he had displayed behind glass in the center of his shop, but the poet eyed this somewhat distastefully.

Something indirect, mixed, reconciling, tensional might well be the stratagem, the devious technique by which a poet indulged in all kinds of talk about love and anger and even in something like `` expressions '' of these emotions, without aiming at their incitement or even uttering anything that essentially involves their incitement ''.

From the outset, she must have realized that marriage with him was out of the question, and although she was displeased by the `` unwarrantable '' interference, it seems probable that she did agree with her mother's suggestion that the poet was `` perhaps '' a man `` most fitted to live & die solitary, & in the love only of the Highest Lover ''.

Yet Davidson impressed him as a poet capable of `` sustained power, passion, or beauty '', and he cited specific passages to illustrate not only these qualities but Davidson's command of imagery as well.

After all, Pike was an established poet and his work had been published in the respectable periodicals of that center of American culture, Boston.

In Plato's mind there is an irresolvable conflict between the poet and the philosopher, because the poet imitates only particular objects and is incapable of rising to the first level of abstraction, much less the highest level of ideal forms.

The poet was by definition a realist, his imaginings and parables being natural organizations of reality.

The knights for Warwickshire in this parliament, which ended its session on February 9, were Fulke Greville ( the poet ) and William Combe of Warwick, as Fulke Greville and Edward Greville had been in 1593.

Thus the copywriter in the world of the space merchants is the person who in earlier ages might have been a lyric poet, the person `` capable of putting together words that stir and move and sing ''.

Speaking in terms of sociological stereotype, the `` private eye '' might appeal to the poet in search of a myth for many reasons.

An Italian poet had noticed plainclothes policemen lounging around the area of Quirinal Palace, the first time since the war.

Francis Scott Key ( August 1, 1779 – January 11, 1843 ) was an American lawyer, author, and amateur poet, from Georgetown, who wrote the lyrics to the United States ' national anthem, " The Star-Spangled Banner ".

Herman Melville ( August 1, 1819 – September 28, 1891 ) was an American novelist, short story writer, essayist, and poet.

Strabo ( 14. 1. 37 ) records an Homeric temple in Smyrna with an ancient xoanon or cult statue of the poet.

In his poem, Works and Days, the ancient Greek poet Hesiod between 750 and 650 BC, defined five successive Ages of Man: 1.

* June 1 – Tribhuvan, Hindi poet and journalist

* April 1 – Isaac Rosenberg, British war poet ( b. 1890 )

* March 1 – Robert Lowell, American poet ( d. 1977 )

* January 1 – Ashfaq Hussain, Urdu poet

* August 1 – Jim Carroll, American author, poet and musician

* February 1 – Jatindramohan Bagchi, Indian ( Bengali ) poet ( b. 1878 )

* December 1 – Juhan Liiv, Estonian poet and short story writer ( b. 1864 )

* June 1 – Kuki Gallmann, Kenyan writer and poet

* August 1 – Theodore Roethke, American poet ( b. 1908 )

* September 1 – Giuseppe Giacosa, Italian poet and librettist ( b. 1847 )

* November 1 – Ezra Pound, American poet ( b. 1885 )

* January 1 – Roberts Blossom, American actor and poet ( d. 2011 )

* October 1 – T. Llew Jones, Welsh author and poet ( d. 2009 )

* January 1 – Cao Bá Quát, Vietnamese poet ( d. 1855 )

* March 1 – Mercedes de Acosta, American poet, playwright, costume designer, and socialite ( d. 1968 )

* March 1 – Tristan Corbière, French poet ( b. 1845 )

* March 1 – Oskar Kokoschka, Austrian artist and poet ( d. 1980 )

* May 1 – Ray Buttigieg, Maltese composer and poet

* November 1 – Samir Roychoudhury, Indian Bengali poet and philosopher of Hungry generation

* March 1 – Uładzimir Zylka, Belarusian poet ( b. 1900 )

* January 1 – Sándor Petőfi, Hungarian poet and revolutionary ( d. 1849 )