Paavo Haavikko

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poem. A poet in a Heian period kimono writes Japanese poetry during the Kamo Kyokusui No En Ancient Festival at Jonan-gu shrine on April 29, 2013 in Kyoto, Japan. Festival of Kyokusui-no Utage orignated in 1,182, party Heian era (794-1192).

World Poetry Day

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Indian hijras participate in a religious procession in Gandhinagar, India, some 30 kilometers from Ahmedabad, on March 22, 2017. Hijra is a term used in South Asia which refers to transgender individuals who are born male. (gender identity, gender expression)

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The impeachment trial of Pres. Andrew Johnson, illustration from Frank Leslie's Illustrated Newspaper, March 28, 1868.

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Born	January 25, 1931 • Helsinki • Finland
Died	October 6, 2008 (aged 77) • Helsinki • Finland
Notable Works	“Tiet etäisyyksiin” • “Tuuliöinä” • “Yksityisiä asioita”

Veijo Meri

Finnish author

Aleksis Kivi

Finnish author

Minna Canth

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Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

German author

Miguel de Cervantes

Spanish writer

D.H. Lawrence

English writer

Aleksandr Pushkin

Russian author

Ivan Turgenev

Russian author

James Joyce

Irish author

Oscar Wilde

Irish author

Vigny, lithograph by Antoine Maurin, 1832

Alfred-Victor, count de Vigny

French author

Luigi Pirandello

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Alphonse Daudet

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Graham Greene

British author

Gerhart Hauptmann

German writer

Gabriele D’Annunzio

Italian writer and political leader

Sylvia Plath

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Tibor Déry

Hungarian writer

Rabindranath Tagore

Bengali poet

Milan Kundera

Czech writer

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4:043 Dickinson, Emily: A Life of Letters, This is my letter to the world/That never wrote to me; I'll tell you how the Sun Rose/A Ribbon at a time; Hope is the thing with feathers/That perches in the soul

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Emily Dickinson (1830-1886) only confirmed photograph of Emily Dickinson. 1978 scan of a Daguerreotype. ca. 1847; in the Amherst College Archives. American poet. See Notes:

Poetry: First Lines

Illustration of "The Lamb" from "Songs of Innocence" by William Blake, 1879. poem; poetry

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