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Re:Ask HN: Who are your favorite poets? by cousin_it on Monday March 30, 2015 @02:30PM (#9291516)
Pushkin, Lermontov, Nekrasov... Yeah, I'm Russian :-p

Among English poems, I rather like this one by Laurie Lee:

    A golden fish like a pint of wine
    Rolls the sea undergreen,
    Glassily balanced on the tide
    Only the skin between.

    Fish and water lean together,
    Separate and one,
    Till a fatal flash of the instant sun
    Lazily corkscrews down.

    Did fish and water drink each other?
    The reed leans there alone;
    As we, who once drank each other's breath,
    Have emptied the air, and gone.
And of course W.H. Auden:

    ...I and the public know
    What all schoolchildren learn,
    Those to whom evil is done
    Do evil in return.
Re:Ask HN: Who are your favorite poets? by fallinghawks on Monday March 30, 2015 @03:26PM (#9291943)
I'm not Russian and I like Lermontov :)
Re:Ask HN: Who are your favorite poets? by realitygrill on Monday March 30, 2015 @09:17PM (#9293796)
Same, but I'm more partial to Pushkin :)
Re:Ask HN: Who are your favorite poets? by anonymfus on Tuesday March 31, 2015 @09:32AM (#9295999)
Re:Ask HN: Who are your favorite poets? by anonymfus on Tuesday March 31, 2015 @10:06AM (#9296233)
This was a scene from the movie "Бакенбарды" ("Backenbardy", literary "sideburns") where Pushkin cultists encounter Lermontov fanboys.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0099097/

Re:Ask HN: Who are your favorite poets? by macho_pikachu on Monday March 30, 2015 @03:51PM (#9292116)
What Auden couldn't find On hornbooks or in verses Is whether it is our condition Only stirring with the curses
Re:Ask HN: Who are your favorite poets? by shirman on Monday March 30, 2015 @04:00PM (#9292173)
Bro ;)