Authors, poets and philosophers
The ones I keep returning to.
Franz Kafka
1883–1924
Albert Camus
1913–1960
Fyodor Dostoevsky
1821–1881
Leo Tolstoy
1828–1910
Carl Jung
1875–1961
Friedrich Nietzsche
1844–1900
Marcus Aurelius
121–180
e.e. cummings
1894–1962
Walt Whitman
1819–1892
Pablo Neruda
1904–1973
W. B. Yeats
1865–1939
David Foster Wallace
1962–2008
Kurt Vonnegut
1922–2007
Hunter S. Thompson
1937–2005
Alan Watts
1915–1973
Isaac Asimov
1920–1992
Jack Kerouac
1922–1969
Allen Ginsberg
1926–1997
Lawrence Ferlinghetti
1919–2021
Frank Herbert
1920–1986
Philip K. Dick
1928–1982
Ray Bradbury
1920–2012
Neal Stephenson
born 1959
Jorge Luis Borges
1899–1986
Ursula K. Le Guin
1929–2018
Italo Calvino
1923–1985
Rumi
1207–1273
Mary Oliver
1935–2019
Hafiz
1325–1390
Richard Feynman
1918–1988
Carl Sagan
1934–1996
Marie Curie
1867–1934
David Bohm
1917–1992
Baruch Spinoza
1632–1677
Iain McGilchrist
b. 1953
Jiddu Krishnamurti
1895–1986
Simone Weil
1909–1943
William S. Burroughs
1914–1997
Gary Snyder
b. 1930
Gregory Corso
1930–2001
Diane di Prima
1934–2020
Neal Cassady
1926–1968
Anne Waldman
b. 1945
Bob Kaufman
1925–1986
Michael McClure
1932–2020
Amiri Baraka
1934–2014
Arthur C. Clarke
1917–2008
Stanisław Lem
1921–2006
Kim Stanley Robinson
b. 1952
Iain M. Banks
1954–2013
Ted Chiang
b. 1967
Liu Cixin
b. 1963
Dan Simmons
1948–2026
Margaret Atwood
b. 1939
China Miéville
b. 1972
N. K. Jemisin
b. 1972
Alastair Reynolds
b. 1966
William Gibson
b. 1948
Octavia E. Butler
1947–2006