Your favorite poet/artist

i have lots and cant actually remember some of the best of all time names, can any one refrech my memory from some back in the 1980 ? my mind is like a siv and only really remember what i did last night,

Frá mǫ́lum munk segja, þeims ek mey heyrða,
hvíta, haddbjarta, es við hrafn dœmði.
Vitr þóttisk valkyrja, verar né óru
þekkir svá enni fránleitu, es foglsrǫdd kunni;
kvaddi en glæhvarma ok en kverkhvíta
Hymis hausrofa, es sat á horni vinbjarga.
Hvat es yðr hrafnar? Hvaðan eruð ér komnir
með dreyrgu nefi at degi ǫndverðum?
hold loðir yðr í klóm, hræs þefr gengr ór munni,
nær hykk í nǫ́tt bjogguð því's vissuð nái liggja.

A very detailed description of a valkyrie's appearance from around year 900. Author unknown.

My favorite poet is T.R. Moore. I understand she was up for the Pulitzer in 2014. ""The Pillars of My Soul" is her complete works, and it is cool, because in the back it shows a lot of her old stuff and you can see her progression as an artist. Also, she is schizotypal, so her work oozes with reference to that type of mind. It's really hard to choose just one, but here is one I especially relate to:

Sanctum Sanctorum

I retreat more oft within my sanctum
To mute the dogs of life, ever at my heels
Atoms vibrate slowly there, breathing honey
There is a silent tempest just beyond that painted metal
I know it’s there – yet birds seem to sing in spite

That blazing dark and madding throng
That twists on a point some nowhere just beyond
Drives me to dim shadowed light
Candled and cradled, cribbed in ecstatic stillness
A Gentle death within my own womb – stillborn, but safe

Damned devil knocks upon my door
Shattering sweet and tiny worlds just beginning
To sort out night and day and light
His heavy embered sole I welcome in quite knowingly
Stepping fire on my dry and scattered thresh

My new, quick dust blows and drifts and soonly sifts
Against the back wall of the universe
I made a pact with a persistent evil
That to live, however slightly, however long
I must die each minute, each step, each breath

Another song's lyrics that I like:

Die Lunikoff Verschwörung - To be born free is destiny, to live free is not / Frei geboren ist Schicksal, frei zu Leben nicht

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MNXCJfE71yY

Whether on a green summer meadow at the very first cockerel's crow
or in a bleak cell, in your heart you are always free.
And all who want to take your freedom, paid thugs, they are not (free).
Even with death very close, then your whole face will be grinning.

To be born free is destiny, to live free is not.
And to die free - this is duty.
To be born free is destiny, to live free is not.
And to die free - this is duty.

The content slaves and lapdogs put the old wolf in the cold.
While they yap on a leash, he wanders proud through the deep forest.
And nothing and no one can take away his freedom.
The hunter can kill him, but never tame.

To be born free is destiny, to live free is not.
And to die free - this is duty.
To be born free is destiny, to live free is not.
And to die free - this is duty.

Whatever they try, you remain steadfast, comrade.
See through the bars the blue sky, up to where reaches no barbed wire.
And no misfortune lasts forever, the time here will also pass.
They can lock us up, they can torture us, they will never see us on our knees.

To be born free is destiny, to live free is not.
And to die free - this is duty.
To be born free is destiny, to live free is not.
And to die free - this is duty.
To be born free is destiny, to live free is not.
And to die free - this is duty.
To be born free is destiny, to live free is not.
And to die free - this is duty.

Poe, Pope, Whitman, Ginsberg, Blake, Thomas, Plath, Sexton, and everyone else who makes my hair stand up.

Living Poets so far

Tracy K Smith
Life on Mars

I'm not well versed in poetry, but the Simon Armitage translation of Sir Gawain and the Green Knight remains one of my favorite books of any variety. And I have a soft spot for some of Tennyson's work, particularly The Lady of Shallot.

This isn't exactly poetry but it's what came to mind first:

http://www.azlyrics.com/lyrics/nickdrake/waytoblue.html

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Leonard Cohen

E.E. Cummings