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Greek

Delphic Oracle on the Ascent of the Soul of Plotinus  (c. 204/5–270)

Gregory of Nazianzus (330–390)

Proclus of Athens (c. 412–485)

Nonnos of Panopolis (fl. 470)

Christodoros of Coptos (fl. 495)

Paul the Silentiary (fl. 560)

John of Gaza (fl. 550)

George of Pisidia (fl. 620)

Symeon the New Theologian (949–1022)

Michael Psellos (c. 1018–1078)

Plethon, George Gemistus (1355–1452)

Kostis Palamas (1859–1943)

C. P. Cavafy (1863–1933)

Zissimos Lorenzatos (1915–2004)

Latin

Boethius (c. 477–524 AD)

Arabic

Rabi‘a al-Adawiyya (713–801)

Abu Tammam (807–845)

Al-Hallaj (858–922)

Ibn Sina (980–1037)

Ibn Arabi (1165–1240)

Al-Shushtari (1212–1269)

Nasib Arida (1887–1931)

Mikha’il Nu‘ayma (1889–1988)

Muhammad Afifi Matar (1935–2010)

Sayyidna Taher Saifuddin (1888–1965)

Hebrew

Solomon Ibn Gabirol (1021–1070)

Judah Halevi (1075–1141)

Moses ben Abraham Dar’i (mid 12th century)

Aaron ben Joseph ha-Rofe (late 13th–early 14th century)

Joseph ben Samuel (late 17th century)

Persian

Ruzbihan Baqli (1128–1209)

Jalal al-Din Rumi (1207–1273)

Hafez (1315–1390)

Azar Kayvan (d.c. 1609–1618)

Forugh Farrokhzad (1935–1967)

Sohrap Sepehri (1930–1980)

Abbas Kiarostami (1940–2016)

Bijan Elahi (1945–2010)

Italian

Dante (1265–1321)

Michelangelo Buonarotti (1475–1564)

Vittoria Colonna (1492–1547)

Eugenio Montale (1896–1981)

Spanish

Garcilaso de la Vega (1498–1536)

Francisco de Aldana (c. 1540–1578)

Fray Luis de León (1527–1591)

St John of the Cross (1542–1591)

Quevedo (1580–1645)

Catalina Clara Ramírez de Guzmán (1611–1684)

Sor Juana de la Cruz (1651–1695)

José Ángel Valente (1929–2000)

Turkish (Ottoman and Modern)

Mihri Hatun (d. c. 1512) 

Hayâlî (1500–1557)

Caʿfer Çelebi (1459–1515)

Fuzûlî (1494–1556)

Asaf Hâlet Çelebi (1907–1958)

Behçet Necatigil (1916–1979)

Sezai Karakoç (b. 1933)

Hilmi Yavuz (b. 1936)

Birhan Keskin (b. 1963)

English

John Donne (1572–1631)

Henry More (1614–1687)

William Wordsworth (1770–1850)

Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792–1822)

William Butler Yeats (1865–1939)

Robert Edward Duncan (1919–1988)

Galician

Claudio Rodríguez Fer (b. 1956)