24 aprilie
1846 – Marcus Clarke, romancier şi poet australian (d. 1881)
1845 – Carl Spitteler, poet elveţian, laureat al premiului Nobel (d. 1924)
1905 – Robert Penn Warren, poet american, critic literar, unul dintre cei care au fondat New Criticism (d. 1989)
Long ago, in Kentucky, I, a boy, stood
By a dirt road, in first dark, and heard
The great geese hoot northward.
I could not see them, there being no moon
And the stars sparse. I heard them.
I did not know what was happening in my heart.
It was the season before the elderberry blooms,
Therefore they were going north.
The sound was passing northward.
(Tell Me a Story)
1911 – Eugen Jebeleanu, poet român (d. 1991)
am visat că am murit – îmi spuse
şi se urcă, mică şi plînsă, la mine în pat
şi primejdia i se oglindea neagră în ochii negri
şi eu îi mîngîiam părul de lumină
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