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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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Fish. Lionfish. Lion-fish. Turkey fish. Fire-fish. Red lionfish. Pterois volitans. Venomous fin spines. Coral reefs. Underwater. Ocean. Red lionfish swims by seaweed.

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bird. mourning dove. pigeon and dove. Mourning Dove (Zenaida macroura) family Columbidae.

Nikola Tesla's Weird Obsession with Pigeons

Odissi Indian classical female dancer on white background. (Indian dancer; classical dancer; Indian dance)

6 Classical Dances of India

Young man skeet shooting with airborne shell

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earthquake. Heavily damaged school in the town of Yingxiu after a major earthquake struck China's Sichuan Province on May 12, 2008.

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Title: Senate Square, St. Petersburg, December 14, 1825: repression of the troop mutiny - watercolor by Carl Ivanovitch Kollman, 1825 depicts Decembrist uprising clashing with cavalry, with spectators watching. (new style December 26, 1825) Europe. Saint

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Born	March 29, 1885 • Subotica • Serbia
Died	November 3, 1936 (aged 51) • Budapest • Hungary
Notable Works	“A szegény kisgyermek panaszai” • “Wonder Maid”

Cesare Pavese

Italian author

Tibor Déry

Hungarian writer

D.H. Lawrence

English writer

Edgar Allan Poe

American writer

Vladimir Nabokov

American author

Edmund Wilson

American critic

G.K. Chesterton

British author

Simms, detail of an engraving published by Johnson, Fry and Company, 1861

William Gilmore Simms

American novelist

Sir Stephen Spender

English poet

Baren

Chinese author and critic

Riccardo Bacchelli

Italian author

Ṭāhā Ḥusayn

Egyptian author

Ana Castillo

American poet and author

José Emilio Pacheco

Mexican author

Constance Lindsay Skinner

American writer and historian

Rosario Ferré

Puerto Rican writer

John Wain

British critic and writer

Alice Dunbar Nelson

American author

Sir Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch

British writer

Satō Haruo

Japanese author

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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

Famous Poets and Poetic Form

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:

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

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