Poets cited:
Pir Sultan Abdal 1480-1550, Turkish poet
Gentil Bernard 1708-1775, French poet and librettist
William Blake 1757-1827, English poet, painter and printmaker
Nicolas Boileau 1636-1711, French poet and critic
Henri Bosco 1888-1976, French novelist and poet
Buson 1716-1783, Japanese poet and painter
René Char 1907-1988, French poet
Chiyo-Ni 1703-1775, Japanese poet
Lucie Delarue-Mardrus 1874-1945, French poet, novelist and sculptor
Dogen 1200-1253, Zen Buddhist philosopher
Saint Francis of Assisi 1182-1226, Italian patron saint of animals and the environment
Theophile Gautier 1811-1872, French poet, dramatist, novelist and critic
Yoka Gengaku 665-713 Chinese Zen master
Kahlil Gibran 1883-1931, Lebanese poet, artist and philosopher
Eugène Guillevic 1907-1997, French poet
Zafir al-Haddad 11th century, Egyptian poet
Victor Hugo 1802-1885, French novelist, poet and playwright
Johann Gottfried Von Herder 1744-1803, German philosopher, poet, literary critic
Kobayashi Issa 1763-1827, Japanese poet and Buddhist priest
Ernst Jünger 1895-1998, German writer
Saint Kabir 15th century, Indian poet and saint
Ibn Khafaja 11th century, Arab poet from Andalusia
Ibn Khanzabeh 10th century, Arab poet and politician
Omar Khayyam 1048-1131, Persian poet, mathematician, philosopher, astronomer
Jacques Lacarrière 1925-2005, French writer
Lao Tzu ca 6th century BCE, Chinese Taoist philosopher
Ilya Abu Madhi 1889-1957, Lebanese poet
Sidi Abou Madyan 12th century, Andalusian Sufi poet
Henri Matisse 1869-1954, French artist
Catulle Mendès 1841-1909, French poet, playwright and novelist
Henri de Montherlant 1895-1972, French essayist, dramatist and novelist
Tamim Ibn Al Mouaaz 948-985 Tunisian-Egyptian poet
Charles d’Orléans 1394-1465, French duke and poet
Honorat de Racan 1589-1670, French writer and poet
Henri de Régnier 1864-1936, French poet
Saadi 1184-1283, Persian poet
Al-Sanawbari 10th century, poet from Antioch
Saryu Japanese poet
Ibn al-Sayegh 14th century, Arab poet
Tu Fu 8th century, Chinese poet
Nicolas Vauquelin 1567-1649, French poet
Paul Verlaine 1844-1896, French poet
Wang-Wei 8th century, Chinese poet and painter
Ibn Zaydoun 1003-1071, Andalusian poet
