Paul Lawrence Dunbar (1872 to 1906)

 

                                                                                                                                                       

Come when the year's first blossom blows,

Come when the summer gleams and glows,

Come with the winter's drifting snows,

And you are welcome, welcome

John Wilmot, second Earl of Rochester, (1647-1680)

 

John Wilmot, second Earl of Rochester, wrote poetry, including  "My Lord All-Pride" from which we excerpt:

...

...so lewd a scribbler... writes,

....his brain... so weak

... his starved fancy is compelled to rake

Among the excrements of others' wit,

To make a stinking meal of what they shit.

....

Quoting Wikipedia is announcing one's ignorance

 

As for example this  Wikipedia article:

Hauntology (a portmanteau of haunting and ontology) is a neologism introduced by French philosopher Jacques Derrida in his 1993 book Spectres of Marx. The concept refers to the return or persistence of elements from the past, as in the manner of a ghost.

I feel quite comfortable citing Wikipedia here, since, afterwards, I STILL don't know what the word "hauntology" means.

Alice Walker

"Thank you' is the best prayer that anyone could say. I say that one a lot. Thank you expresses extreme gratitude, humility, understanding."

Lucille Clifton "the poet is thirty two"

 

she has such knowledges as

rats have,

the sound of cat

the smell of cheese

where the holes are,

she is comfortable

hugging the walls

she trembles over herself

in the light

and she will leave disaster

when she can.

John Donne's "Anatomy of the World" excerpt

 

....

And now the springs and summers which we see

Like sons of women over fifty be

And new philosophy calls all in doubt,

The element of fire is quite put out:

...

'Tis all in pieces, all coherence gone;

All just supply, and all relation:

Prince, subject, father, son, are things forgot

For every man alone thinks he hath got

To be a phoenix, and that there can be

None of that kind, of which he is, but he,

.....