Poets by Century
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Nagarjuna (150? - 250?) (India) |
| Candaka (290? - 365?) (India) |
| Hekhalot Hymns (Anonymous) (4th Century) (Israel/Palestine) |
| Hui K'o (4th Century) (China) |
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Kalidasa (350? - 430?) (India) |
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T'ao Ch'ien (365 - 427) (China) |
| Yose ben Yose (5th Century) (Israel/Palestine) |
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Boethius (480? - 525) (Italy) |
| Seng-Ts'an (520? - 606?) (China) |
| Eleazar ben Kallir (6th Century) (Israel/Palestine) |
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Dionysius the Areopagite (6th Century) (Syria) |
| Taliesin (6th Century) (Wales) |
| Yannai (6th Century) (Israel/Palestine) |
| Govindasvami (7th Century) (India) |
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Tiruvalluvar (7th Century) (India) |
| Nukata (638? - 710?) (Japan) |
| Hsuan Chueh of Yung Chia / Yoka Genkaku (665 - 713) (China) |
| Meng Hao-jan (689 - 740) (China) |
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Wang Wei (699? - 761) (China) |
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Li Bai (701 - 762) (China) |
| Tu Fu (712 - 770) (China) |
| Rabia al-Basri (Rabia al- Adawiyya) (717 - 801) (Iraq) |
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Nammalvar (8th Century) (India) |
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Saraha (8th Century) (India) |
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Han-shan (Cold Mountain) (730? - 850?) (China) |
| Chiao Jan (730 - 799) (China) |
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P'ang Yun (Layman P'ang) (740? - 808) (China) |
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Feng-kan (Big Stick) (750? - 850?) (China) |
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Lu Tung Pin (755 - 805) (China) |
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Yeshe Tsogyel (8th Century) (Tibet) |
| Po Chu-i (772 - 846) (China) |
| Shih-te (Pickup) (780? - 850?) (China) |
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Shankara (788 - 820) (India) |
| Dhun-Nun al- Misri (796 - 859) (Egypt) |
| Tung-Shan (Tozan) (806 - 869) (China) |
| Sahl al- Tustari (818? - 896) (Iran/Persia) |
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Andal (9th Century) (India) |
| Manikkavacakar (9th Century) (India) |
| Sivavakkiyar (9th Century) (India) |
| Wu Cailan (9th Century) (China) |
| Abu 'l-Husayn al-Nuri (? - 908) (Iraq) |
| Mansur al- Hallaj (9th Century) (Iran/Persia) |
| Yung-ming Yen-shou (904 - 975) (China) |
| Niffari (Muhammad ibn al-Hasan an-Niffari) (? - 965) (Iraq) |
| Devara Dasimayya (10th Century) (India) |
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Gorakhnath (10th Century) (India) |
| Pattinattar (10th Century) (India) |
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Symeon the New Theologian (949 - 1032) (Turkey) |
| Abu-Said Abil-Kheir (967 - 1049) (Turkmenistan) |
| Izumi Shikibu (974? - 1034?) (Japan) |
| Baba Kuhi of Shiraz (980? - 1050) (Iran/Persia) |
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Tilopa (988 - 1069) (India) |
| Samuel ha Nagid (993 - 1056) (Spain) |
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Khwaja Abdullah Ansari (1006 - 1088) (Afghanistan) |
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Marpa (Marpa Lotsawa) (1012 - 1097) (Tibet) |
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Naropa (1016 - 1100) (India) |
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Solomon ibn Gabirol (1021? - 1058) (Spain) |
| Qushayri (? - 1074) (Iran/Persia) |
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Hakim Sanai (1044? - 1150?) (Afghanistan) |
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Ahmad Jami (1048 - 1141) (Iran/Persia) |
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Omar Khayyam (11th Century) (Iran/Persia) |
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Milarepa (1052 - 1135) (Tibet) |
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Guilhem IX of Poitou (1071 - 1126) (France) |
| Judah Halevi (1075? - 1141) (Spain) |
| Hung-chih Cheng-chueh (1091 - 1157) (China) |
| Ayn al-Qozat Hamadani (1098 - 1131) (Iran/Persia) |
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Hildegard von Bingen (1098 - 1179) (Germany) |
| Isaac of Stella (1100 - 1169) (England & France) |
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Farid ud-Din Attar (1120? - 1220?) (Iran/Persia) |
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Sun Buer (1124? - 1182?) (China) |
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Allama Prabhu (12th Century) (India) |
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Mahsati Ganjavi (12th Century) (Azerbaijan) |
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Jayadeva (12th Century) (India) |
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Akka Mahadevi (12th Century) (India) |
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Basava (1134 - 1196) (India) |
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Nizami Ganjavi (1141 - 1209) (Azerbaijan) |
| Gharib Nawaz (1142? - 1236?) (Iran/Persia & India) |
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Bernart de Ventadorn (1145? - 1180) (France) |
| Najmoddin Kobra (1145 - 1221) (Iran/Persia) |
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Arnaut Daniel (? - 1210?) (France) |
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Giraut de Bornelh (1165? - 1210) (France) |
| Awhad al-Din Kirmani (1163 - 1238) |
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Muhyiddin ibn Arabi (1165 - 1240) (Spain) |
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Baba Sheikh Farid (1173 - 1266) (Pakistan) |
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Francis of Assisi (1181 - 1226) (Italy) |
| Umar Ibn al-Farid (1181 - 1235) (Egypt) |
| Wu Men Hui-k'ai (1183 - 1260) (China) |
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Clare of Assisi (1193? - 1254) (Italy) |
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Nachmanides (Moses ben Nachman) (1194 - 1270) (Spain) |
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Eihei Dogen (1200 - 1253) (Japan) |
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Mechthild of Magdeburg (1207 - 1297) (Germany) |
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Mevlana Jelaluddin Rumi (1207 - 1273) (Afghanistan & Turkey) |
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Sa'di (1207? - 1291) (Iran/Persia) |
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Hadewijch (13th Century) (Belgium) |
| Meshullam da Piera (? - 1261?) (Spain) |
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Abu al-Hasan al- Shushtari (1212 - 1269) (Spain) |
| Binavi Badakhshani (13th Century) (Afghanistan) |
| Eldar Edda (Anonymous) (13th Century) (Iceland) |
| Baba Afzal Kashani (13th Century) (Iran/Persia) |
| Yun-k'an Tzu (13th Century) (China) |
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Jacopone da Todi (Jacopone Benedetti) (1230 - 1306) (Italy) |
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Ramon Llull (1232 - 1315) (Spain) |
| Hazrat Nizamuddin Aulia (1238 - 1325) (India) |
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Yunus Emre (1238 - 1320) (Turkey) |
| Fakhruddin Iraqi (? - 1289) (Iran/Persia/India/Turkey) |
| Rabbi Abraham Abulafia (1240 - 1295?) (Spain) |
| Kuan Han-Ch'ing (1240 - 1320) (China) |
| Sultan Valad (1240? - 1312) (Turkey) |
| Zohar (Moses de Leon) (1245? - 1305) (Spain) |
| Joseph Gikatilla (1248 - 1325?) (Spain) |
| Ibn Ata' Illah (1250 - 1309) (Egypt) |
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Mahmud Shabistari (1250? - 1340) (Iran/Persia) |
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Amir Khusrow Dehlawi (1253 - 1325) (India) |
| Marguerite Porete (1260? - 1310) (France) |
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Dante Alighieri (1265? - 1321) (Italy) |
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Jnaneshwar (1275 - 1296) (India) |
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Muktabai (13th Century) (India) |
| Sharafuddin Maneri (1263 - 1381) (India) |
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Namdev (1270 - 1350) (India) |
| Shiwu (Stonehouse) (1272 - 1352) (China) |
| Ryuzan (1274 - 1358) (Japan) |
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Muso Soseki (1275 - 1351) (Japan) |
| Ala al-Dawla Simnani (? - 1336) (Iran/Persia) |
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Jakushitsu (1290 - 1367) (Japan) |
| Janabai (1298 - 1350?) (India) |
| Jusammi Chikako (14th Century) (Japan) |
| Longchen Rabjampa (1308 - 1363) (Tibet) |
| Hafiz (1320 - 1389) (Iran/Persia) |
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Lalla (14th Century) (Kashmir (India/Pakistan)) |
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Avaiyar (14th Century) (India) |
| Beni (14th Century) (India) |
| Granum Sinapis (Anonymous) (14th Century) (Germany) |
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Shah Nematollah Vali (1330 - 1431) (Iran/Persia) |
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Vidyapati (1340? - 1430) (India) |
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Catherine of Siena (1347 - 1380) (Italy) |
| Muhammad Shirin Maghribi (1349 - 1408) (Iran/Persia) |
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Imadeddin Nasimi (1369? - 1418) (Azerbaijan) |
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Ikkyu (Ikkyu Sojun) (1394 - 1481) (Japan) |
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Ravidas (1398? - 1448?) (India) |
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Ramananda (1400 - 1480) (India) |
| Zeynep Hatun (15th Century) (Turkey) |
| Pampattic Cittar (15th Century) (India) |
| Pipa (15th Century) (India) |
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Kabir (15th Century) (India) |
| Karma Trinley (1456 - 1539) (Tibet) |
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Guru Nanak (1469 - 1539) (Pakistan/India) |
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Surdas (1478? - 1581?) (India) |
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Mirabai (1498 - 1565?) (India) |
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Teresa of Avila (1515 - 1582) (Spain) |
| Muhittin Abdal (16th Century) (Turkey) |
| Aonghus of the Divinity (16th Century) (Ireland) |
| Kul Himmet (16th Century) (Turkey) |
| Seyyid Seyfullah Nizamoglu (16th Century) (Turkey) |
| Ummi Sinan (16th Century) (Turkey) |
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Luis de Leon (1527 - 1591) (Spain) |
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Isaac Luria (1534 - 1572) (Egypt) |
| Rasakhan (1534? - 1619?) (India) |
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John of the Cross (1542 - 1591) (Spain) |
| Dadu Dayal (1544 - 1603) (India) |
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Heinrich Khunrath (1560? - 1605) (Germany) |
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Michael Maier (1562 - 1622) (Germany) |
| Seyh Ibrahim Efendi (1591 - 1651) (Turkey) |
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George Herbert (1593 - 1633) (Wales) |
| Akha (1600? - 1650?) (India) |
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Dame Catherine Gascoigne (1600 - 1676) (England) |
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Tukaram (1608 - 1649) (India) |
| Sarmad (? - 1659) (Iran/Persia & India) |
| Anne Bradstreet (1612 - 1672) (US) |
| Richard Crashaw (1613 - 1649) (England) |
| Niyazi Misri (1616 - 1694) (Turkey) |
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Rupa Bhawani (1621 - 1721) (Kashmir (India/Pakistan)) |
| Henry Vaughan (1621 - 1695) (Wales) |
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Angelus Silesius (1624 - 1677) (Poland/Germany) |
| Naftali Bacharach (17th Century) (Germany) |
| Hawaiian (Anonymous) (17th Century) (Hawaii) |
| Sultan Bahu (1628 - 1691) (Pakistan/India) |
| Thomas Traherne (1636? - 1674) (England) |
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Matsuo Basho (1644 - 1694) (Japan) |
| Abdul-Qader Bedil (1644 - 1721) (Afghanistan) |
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Rahman Baba (1653 - 1711) (Afghanistan) |
| Masahide (1657? - 1723) (Japan) |
| Shih Shu (1660? - 1740?) (China) |
| Yamei (1662? - 1713) (Japan) |
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Dariya Sahib of Bihar (1634 - 1780) (India) |
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Bulleh Shah (1680 - 1758) (Punjab (Pakistan/India)) |
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Hakuin (1686 - 1768) (Japan) |
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Alexander Pope (1688 - 1744) (England) |
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Shah Abdul Latif Bhitai (1689 - 1752) (Pakistan) |
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Fukuda Chiyo-ni (1703 - 1775) (Japan) |
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Thayumanavar (1706 - 1744) (India) |
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Kelsang Gyatso (1708 - 1757) (Tibet) |
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Buson (1716 - 1784) (Japan) |
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Yuan Mei (1716 - 1798) (China) |
| Ramprasad (Ramprasad Sen) (1718? - 1775?) (India) |
| Cherokee (Anonymous) (18th Century) (US) |
| Chinook (Anonymous) (18th Century) (US) |
| Pima (Anonymous) (18th Century) (US) |
| Pygmy (Anonymous) (18th Century) (Congo) |
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Sachal Sarmast (1739 - 1829) (Pakistan/India) |
| Levi Yitzchak of Berditchov (1740 - 1810) (Poland) |
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Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749 - 1832) (Germany) |
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William Blake (1757 - 1827) (England) |
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Seyh Galib (1757 - 1799) (Turkey) |
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Ryokan (1758 - 1831) (Japan) |
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Kobayashi Issa (1763 - 1828) (Japan) |
| Kamalakanta (1769? - 1821?) (India) |
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Novalis (1772 - 1801) (Germany) |
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Ann Griffiths (1776 - 1805) (Wales) |
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Tulsi Sahib (1763 - 1843) (India) |
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Friedrich Holderlin (1770 - 1843) (Germany) |
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William Wordsworth (1770 - 1850) (England) |
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Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772 - 1834) (England) |
| Lalan (1775? - 1891?) (India) |
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Shabkar (Shabkar Tsogdruk Rangdrol) (1781 - 1851) (Tibet) |
| Haude Gosain (1795 - ?) (India/Bengal) |
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Mirza Ghalib (1797 - 1869) (India) |
| Mohammad 'Aref San'at (1800 - 1849) (India) |
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Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803 - 1882) (US) |
| Bibi Hayati (19th Century) (Iran/Persia) |
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Patrul Rinpoche (1808 - 1887) (Tibet) |
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Alfred Tennyson (1809 - 1892) (England) |
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Theophan the Recluse (1815 - 1894) (Russia) |
| Chone Lama Lodro Gyatso (1816 - 1900?) (Tibet) |
| Emily Bronte (1818 - 1848) (England) |
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Walt Whitman (1819 - 1892) (US) |
| Arapaho (Anonymous) (19th Century) (US) |
| Lakota (Anonymous) (19th Century) (US) |
| Navajo (Anonymous) (19th Century) (US) |
| Ojibway (Anonymous) (19th Century) (US) |
| Pawnee (Anonymous) (19th Century) (US) |
| Yakut (Anonymous) (19th Century) (US) |
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Emily Dickinson (1830 - 1886) (US) |
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Ramakrishna (1836 - 1886) (India) |
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Hsu Yun (1839 - 1959) (China) |
| Mahendranath Battacharya (1843 - 1908) (India) |
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Edward Carpenter (1844 - 1929) (England) |
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Gerard Manley Hopkins (1844 - 1889) (England) |
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Vladimir Solovyov (1853 - 1900) (Russia) |
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Francis Thompson (1859 - 1907) (England) |
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Constantine P. Cavafy (1863 - 1933) (Egypt) |
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Vivekananda (1863 - 1902) (India) |
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Shiki (Masaoka Tsunenori) (1867 - 1902) (Japan) |
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Natsume Soseki (1867 - 1916) (Japan) |
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Therese of Lisieux (1873 - 1897) (France) |
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Rabindranath Tagore (1861 - 1941) (India) |
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William Butler Yeats (1865 - 1939) (Ireland) |
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AE (George William Russell) (1867 - 1935) (Ireland) |
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Ahmad al-Alawi (1869 - 1934) (Algeria) |
| Elsa Barker (1869 - 1954) (US) |
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Aurobindo (1872 - 1950) (India) |
| Loy Ching-Yuen (1873 - 1960) (China) |
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Antonio Machado (1875 - 1939) (Spain) |
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Rainer Maria Rilke (1875 - 1926) (Germany) |
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Evelyn Underhill (1875 - 1941) (England) |
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Allama Muhammad Iqbal (1877 - 1938) (India/Pakistan) |
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Ramana Maharshi (1879 - 1950) (India) |
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Wallace Stevens (1879 - 1955) (US) |
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Juan Ramon Jimenez (1881 - 1958) (Spain) |
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Santoka (Santoka Taneda) (1882 - 1940) (Japan) |
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Kahlil Gibran (1883 - 1931) (Lebanon/US) |
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Morihei Ueshiba (1883 - 1969) (Japan) |
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Sara Teasdale (1884 - 1933) (US) |
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D. H. Lawrence (1885 - 1930) (England) |
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Robinson Jeffers (1887 - 1962) (US) |
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Joseph Mary Plunkett (1887 - 1916) (Ireland) |
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T. S. Eliot (1888 - 1965) (US/UK) |
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Anna Akhmatova (1889 - 1966) (Russia) |
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Gabriela Mistral (1889 - 1957) (Chile) |
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Edith Stein (1891 - 1942) (Germany) |
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J. R. R. Tolkien (1892 - 1973) (England) |
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Marina Tsvetaeva (1892 - 1941) (Russia) |
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Paramahansa Yogananda (1893 - 1952) (India) |
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e. e. cummings (1894 - 1962) (US) |
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Meher Baba (1894 - 1969) |
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Jiddu Krishnamurti (1895 - 1986) (India/US) |
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Nazrul Islam (1899 - 1976) (India/Bangladesh) |
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Bawa Muhaiyaddeen (1900? - 1986) (Sri Lanka) |
| Shinkichi Takahashi (20th Century) (Japan) |
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Asik Ali Izzet (1902 - 1981) (Turkey) |
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Pablo Neruda (1904 - 1973) (Chile) |
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Edmond Bordeaux Szekely (1905 - 1979) (Hungary/France/Mexico) |
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Francis Brabazon (1907 - 1984) (Australia) |
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Rabbi Abraham Joshua Heschel (1907 - 1972) (Poland & US) |
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Rolf Jacobsen (1907 - 1994) (Norway) |
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Frithjof Schuon (1907 - 1998) (Germany) |
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Swami Muktananda (1908 - 1982) (India) |
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Theodore Roethke (1908 - 1963) (US) |
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Richard Wright (1908 - 1960) (US) |
| Arthur Osborne (1909 - 1970) (England) |
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Anna Swir (1909 - 1984) (Poland) |
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Abhishiktananda, Swami (Henri Le Saux) (1910 - 1973) (France, India) |
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Faiz Ahmad Faiz (1911 - 1984) (Pakistan) |
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Czeslaw Milosz (1911 - 2004) (Poland) |
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May Sarton (1912 - 1995) (US) |
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James Broughton (1913 - 1999) (US) |
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Edith Kanaka'ole (1913 - 1979) (US, Hawaii) |
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R. S. Thomas (1913 - 2000) (Wales) |
| Moulana Shah Maghsoud (1914 - 1980) (Iran) |
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William Stafford (1914 - 1993) (US) |
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Thomas Merton (1915 - 1968) (US) |
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Anandamurti (Prabhat Ranjan Sarkar) (1921 - 1990) (India) |
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Daniel Berrigan (1921 - 2016) (US) |
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Darshan Singh (1921 - 1989) (India) |
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Jack Kerouac (1922 - 1969) (US) |
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Denise Levertov (1923 - 1997) (US) |
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Wislawa Szymborska (1923 - 2012) (Poland) |
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Lisel Mueller (1924 - 2020) (US & Germany) |
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Philip Booth (1925 - 2007) (US) |
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A. R. Ammons (1926 - 2001) (US) |
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Thich Nhat Hanh (1926 - 2022) (Vietnam/France/US) |
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Javad Nurbakhsh (1926 - 2008) (Iran & England) |
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Maya Angelou (1928 - 2014) (US) |
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Dorothy Walters (1928 - 2023) (US) |
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Derek Walcott (1930 - 2017) (St. Lucia & UK) |
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Taizan Maezumi Roshi (1931 - 1995) |
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Sri Chinmoy (Chinmoy Kumar Ghose) (1931 - 2007) (India / Bangladesh / US) |
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Mary Oliver (1935 - 2019) (US) |
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Stephen Levine (1937 - 2016) (US) |
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Chogyam Trungpa (1939 - 1987) (Tibet / US) |
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John O'Donohue (1956 - 2008) (Ireland) |
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Jay Ramsay (1959 - 2019) (England) |
| Ayaz (Contemporary) (England) |
| Hogen Bays (Contemporary) (United States) |
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Stewart Bitkoff (Contemporary) (US) |
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John Fox (Contemporary) (US) |
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Patricia Hawkes (Contemporary) (Canada) |
| Joanna Macy (Contemporary) (US) |
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Nirmala (Contemporary) (US) |
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Ellen Grace O'Brian (Contemporary) (US) |
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Laura Jan Shore (Contemporary) (UK, US & Australia) |
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Lynn Ungar (Contemporary) (US) |
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Raj Waghray (Contemporary) (India) |
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W. S. Merwin (1927 - ) (US) |
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Gary Snyder (1930 - ) (US) |
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Ko Un (1933 - ) (Korea) |
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Wendell Berry (1934 - ) (US) |
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Pat Schneider (Contemporary) (US) |
| Hafiz (Daniel Ladinsky) (1945? - ) (US) |
| Colin Oliver (1946 - ) (England) |
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Georg Feuerstein (1947 - ) (Germany & US) |
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Chris McCombs (1947 - ) (US) |
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Dick Holmes (1949 - ) (US) |
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Gabriel Rosenstock (1949 - ) (Ireland) |
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Marie Howe (1950 - ) (US) |
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Merrit Malloy (1950 - ) (US) |
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Ram Tzu (Wayne Liquorman) (1950 - ) (US) |
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Gunter Saure (Contemporary) (Germany) |
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Chase Twichell (1950 - ) (US) |
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Kalidas (Lawrence Edwards) (1952 - ) (US) |
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silent lotus (1952 - ) (US) |
| Andrew Colliver (1953 - ) (Australia) |
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Jane Hirshfield (Contemporary) (US) |
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Sabah Raphael Reed (1953 - ) (UK) |
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David Whyte (1955 - ) (US) |
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Li-Young Lee (1957 - ) (US) |
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Irina Kuzminsky (1959 - ) (Australia) |
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Janaka Stagnaro (1960 - ) (US) |
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Adyashanti (1962 - ) (US) |
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Leza Lowitz (1962 - ) (US) |
| Elizabeth Reninger (1963 - ) (US) |
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Tsoknyi Rinpoche (Ngawang Tsoknyi Gyatso) (1966 - ) |
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Ivan M. Granger (1969 - ) (US) |
