Who is your favorite poet?

I always liked Robert Frost.

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Longfellow (and Dr. Seuss )

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I have several:

Walt Whitman
Federico Garcia Lorca
Marge Piercy
Pablo Neruda
Allen Ginsberg
Lucille Clifton
Sylvia Plath
Anne Sexton
e e cummings
T.S. Eliot
William Carlos Williams

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When life hands you lemons, ask for tequila and salt and call me over!
Any time God closes one door, She always opens another, even though sometimes it's Hell in the hallway.
Handle every stressful situation like a dog. If you can't eat it or play with it, pee on it and walk away.
Fool me once, shame on you. Fool me twice, prepare to die. (Klingon proverb)
Don't point. You'll poke holes in the air and all the faeries will escape.

William Blake
Alfred Tennison

I have always liked e.e. cummings and William Carlos Williams. For a while I liked Gwendolyn Brooks and Slyvia Plath (teenage angst phase maybe?). Williams Carlos Williams is my absolute favorite, although Shel Silverstein is a lot of fun. We have 3 of his books and my kids love reading them.

Uncle Shel IS fun. M'ija still has her Shel Silverstein books from when she was a child, and plans to pass them on, along with her collection of Dr. Suess and Byrd Baylor, to her kids if she ever decides to have any. (Not that I'm in any big hurry for that to happen - I'd rather she wait at least until her mid-twenties to start).

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When life hands you lemons, ask for tequila and salt and call me over!
Any time God closes one door, She always opens another, even though sometimes it's Hell in the hallway.
Handle every stressful situation like a dog. If you can't eat it or play with it, pee on it and walk away.
Fool me once, shame on you. Fool me twice, prepare to die. (Klingon proverb)
Don't point. You'll poke holes in the air and all the faeries will escape.