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Elvis Presley
Peter Townsend
Tom Jones
Joan Baez (my favorite American singer!)
Beatrix Potter
Peter Fonda
Frank Zappa
Zélia Gattai
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Z%C3%A9lia_Gattai
Very interesting. She started her literary career at age 63 ! There's hope for us all !!
George Harrison
Sure!
Harriet Beecher-Stowe
Ben Stiller
Stanley Kubrick
Kurt Cobain
Carl Orff
Orson Wells
William Hurt
Bad Winter there ?
Helen Keller
Yes, about 9º or 10ºC in the evening. That´s much for São Paulo.
Karl May
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karl_May
Very accomplished in many disciplines.
Maynard Ferguson
Friedrich Schiller
http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/ode-to-joy-7/
Seamus Heaney
Harold Bloom
good one !
Bill Knott... http://www.newyorker.com/books/page-...ing-bill-knott
Interesting character. "One of that autodestructive kind" as one Professor of mine would say.
Knut Hamsun
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Knut_Hamsun
Have to study up on him !
Henry David Thoreau
So up to date!http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/end-of-summer-1966/
Thornton Wilder
Willie Mays (ol' #24)... Bill Knott again: http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/fragm...rom-the-beach/
Mahatma Gandhi
"Non-violence is the greatest force at the disposal of mankind. It is mightier than the mightiest weapon of destruction devised by the ingenuity of man."
http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/au...ma_gandhi.html
Gore Vidal
Virginia Woolf
Wanda Sykes
Saul Bellow
Bradley Paul
Pjotr Andrejewitsch Tolstoi
Tatiana Anatolyevna Kosintseva
Kirsten Dunst
David Copperfield
lol!
Charles Dickens
Detlev von Liliencron http://www.mptmagazine.com/poem/koli...-weiss-wo-255/
Interesting, sad poem. I looked it up in German and I liked the translation. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Detlev_von_Liliencron. He died the year my father was born.
Lars von Tryer (another "von")