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Who is your favorite author?

I'm curious as to who is everyone's favorite author? I don't really have a favorite and always looking for different authors to read.
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How about poets..?

Go to the Limits of Your Longing.

Written by Rainer Maria Rilke.


God speaks to each of us as he makes us,
then walks with us silently out of the night.

These are the words we dimly hear:

You, sent out beyond your recall,
go to the limits of your longing.
Embody me.

Flare up like a flame
and make big shadows I can move in.

Let everything happen to you: beauty and terror.
Just keep going. No feeling is final.
Don’t let yourself lose me.

Nearby is the country they call life.
You will know it by its seriousness.

Give me your hand.
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@SW-User Poetry is another matter.
Lord Byron and Benjamin Zephaniah are difficult to beat.