1803 – Marjory Fleming, poet scoţian (m. 1811)

1850 – Mihai Eminescu, poet român (m. 1889)

„Numai poetul,

Ca pasări ce zboară

Deasupra valurilor,

Trece peste nemărginirea timpului :

În ramurile gândului,

În sfintele lunci,

Unde pasări ca el

Se-ntrec în cântări.” (sursa http://ro.wikisource.org/wiki/Numai_poetul )

1891 – Osip Mandelstam, poet rus (m. 1938)

Misery is he whom, like a shadow,

A dog’s barking frightens, the wind cuts down.

Poor is he who, half-alive himself

Begs his shade for pittance. (sursa )

Ţăcănind pe granitul porfirului,

Se tot împiedică bietul căluţ de ţară,

Căţărându-se pe soclul pleşuv

Al răsunătoarei pietre statale (sursa )

1897 – Xu Zhimo, poet chinez (m. 1931)

But as for me, I cannot sing

this muted summer’s evening;

Even insects hush, as silence

plays the flute for leaving. (sursa )

1634 – Dorthe Engelbrechtsdatter, poetă norvegiană (m. 1716)

1874 – Robert W. Service, poet canadian (m. 1958)

I was once, I declare, a Stone-Age man,

And I roomed in the cool of a cave;

I have known, I will swear, in a new life-span,

The fret and the sweat of a slave:

For far over all that folks hold worth,

There lives and there leaps in me

A love of the lowly things of earth,

And a passion to be free. (sursa )

1897 – Carlos Pellicer, poet mexican (m. 1977)

1918 – Nel Benschop, poet olandez (m. 2005)

1923 – Anthony Hecht, poet american (m. 2004)

Book-bagged and padded out, at mouth and nose

…….They manufacture ghosts,

…….George Washington’s and Poe’s,

Banquo’s, the Union and Confederate hosts’,

And are themselves the ghosts, file cabinet gray,

…….Of some departed us,

…….Signing our lives away

On ferned and parslied windows of a bus. (sursa )

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8 ianuarie

1824 – Francisco González Bocanegra, poet mexican (m. 1861)
Declina el sol y su postrero rayo
dora no más las cimas de los montes,
y colora los anchos horizontes
purísimo arrebol.
Cesan los trinos de canoras aves
que levantaron a su nido el vuelo,
lánguida inclina su cabeza al suelo
doliente girasol. (sursa )

1933 – Ko Un, poet koreean.
Hei, vorbeai de vechiul Buddha?
De ce? vechiul Buddha nu e Buddha.
Adevăratul Buddha-i un peşte abia prins
Sare şi saltă (sursa )

9 ianuarie
1589 – Ivan Gundulić, poet croat (m. 1638).
„Fair liberty, beloved liberty, liberty sweetly avowed,
thou are the treasured gift that God to us endowed,
all our glory is thy true creation,
to our Home thou are all the decoration,
no silver nor gold, not life itself could replace
the reward of thy pure and sublime grace.” (sursa )

1728 – Thomas Warton, poet englez (m. 1790).
Long have I loved to catch the simple chime
Of minstrel-harps, and spell the fabling rime;
To view the festive rites, the knightly play,
That deck’d heroic Albion’s elder day;
To mark the mouldering halls of barons bold,
And the rough castle, cast in giant mould;
With Gothic manners Gothic arts explore
And muse on the magnificence of yore. (sursa )

1790 – Per Daniel Amadeus Atterbom, poet suedez (m. 1855)
Lo, as she speaks, a thousand starlights gleam,
Lighted for Heaven’s Christmas day they seem.
Sighing, he swears the oath,–the die is cast;
Into the mermaid’s arms he sinks at last. (sursa )

1873 – Hayyim Nahman Bialik, poet ebraic (m. 1934)
Pentru ca Dumnezeu primavara si macelul impreuna le-a chemat,
Soarele a stralucit, salcamul a inflorit, ucigasul a injunghiat.
Si ai fugit si ai venit in curte, iar in curte este un damb rau,
Damb pe care au fost decapitati doi: evreul si cainele sau. (sursa )

10 ianuarie
1894 – Pingali Lakshmikantam, poet indian (m. 1972)

1928 – Philip Levine, poet american.
„Down sat Bud, raised his hands,
the Deuces silenced, the lights
lowered, and breath gathered
for the coming storm. Then nothing,
not a single note. Outside starlight
from heaven fell unseen, a quarter-
moon, promised, was no show,
ditto the rain.” (sursa )

11 ianuarie
1910 – Nikos Kavvadias, poet grec (m. 1975)

1926 – Leonid Dimov, poet român (m. 1987)
În noaptea decolorată şi pustie
Se-aud trompetele de hârtie
Cumpărate de la moşi.
Priveşte cât suntem de frumoşi
Acolo-n vitrina fotografului de cartier,
Alături de măcelar, de fata popii, de bijutier,
Şi cât de bine ne-nţelegem, deşi suntem
certaţi
(sursa)

12 ianuarie
1895 – Sándor Földes (Pál Ács), poet maghiar (m. 1968)

13 ianuarie
1562 – Mark Alexander Boyd, poet scoţian (m. 1601)
Unhappy is the man for evermair
That tills the sand and sawis in the air;
But twice unhappier is he, I lairn,
That feidis in his hairt a mad desire,
And follows on a woman throw the fire,
Led by a blind and teachit by a bairn. (sursa )

1599 – a murit Edmund Spenser, poet englez (n. 1552)
Lo I the man, whose Muse whilome did maske,
As time her taught in lowly Shepheards weeds,
Am now enforst a far unfitter taske,
For trumpets sterne to chaunge mine Oaten reeds,
And sing of Knights and Ladies gentle deeds; (sursa)

1698 – Metastasio, poet şi libretist italian (m. 1782)

1812 – Victor de Laprade, poet şi critic francez (m. 1883)

1859 – Kostis Palamas, poet grec (m. 1943)
I returned to my golden playgrounds,
I returned to my white boyhood trail,
I returned to see the wondrous palace,
Built just for me by love’s divine ways. (sursa )

14 ianuarie
1700 – Picander (Christian Friedrich Henrici), poet german şi libretist pentru o parte din cantatele compuse de Johann Sebastian Bach în Leipzig (d. 1764)

1819 – Dimitrie Bolintineanu, poet român (d. 1872)
Ea cîntă şi natura păru că se îmbată.
A nopţii stea de aur în sînul unui nor
Şi marea azurie şi noaptea parfumată
Tresar d-un sînt amor ! (sursa )