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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).

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An ancient egyptian hieroglyphic painted carving showing the falcon headed god Horus seated on a throne and holding a golden fly whisk. Before him are the Pharoah Seti and the goddess Isis. Interior wall of the temple to Osiris at Abydos, Egypt.

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Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519), Italian Renaissance painter from Florence. Engraving by Cosomo Colombini (d. 1812) after a Leonardo self portrait. Ca. 1500.

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Born	April 20, 1901 • Paris • France
Died	September 30, 1990 (aged 89) • France
Notable Works	“Manhood” • “The Autobiographer as Torero”

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Michel Butor

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Pierre-Jean Jouve

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Anatole Le Braz

Breton folklorist and author

Alain Mabanckou

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Mohammed Aziz Lahbabi

Moroccan writer and philosopher

Henry Bauchau

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Mieczysław Jastrun

Polish author and poet

Robert Charbonneau

Canadian writer

Marcel Thiry

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Malek Haddad

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Blaise Cendrars

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Jean-Jacques Rousseau

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Charles Baudelaire

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Victor Hugo

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Denis Diderot

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Émile Zola

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Charles Augustin Sainte-Beuve

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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:

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

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