ITT: we post our 2 favourite poets, writers and philosophers

>>7585444
You don't read a lot of philosophy

>Poets:
Rilke
Emerson
>Writers:
Joyce
Ovid
>Philosophers:
Shestov
Schopenhauer

Poets:
Blake
Chaucer

Writers:
Tolstoy
Tacitus

Philosophers:
Plato
Heidegger

>>7585444
You've got a bleak outlook on life, but believe you can persevere through it.

>>7585463
You've got a bleak outlook on life, but believe you can sniff farts through it.

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Poets:
Crane
Donne

Writers:
Melville
Hawthorne

Philosophers:
Heidegger
Aquinas

>>7585444
Poets
>crane
>pound
Writers
>Gaddis
>Gass
Philosophers
>Kant
>Wittgenstein

>>7585607

oh I forgot, I guess I'm supposed to rate you guys. Here goes:

>>7585488
I love Blake but Chaucer is probably imo the most important poet to like. Not liking chaucer means there's something wrong with you. So good stuff there.

Tolstoy is fucking boring and I can't finish any of his books. I've been spoiled by poetry, where I can get just as much good from 12 lines as 1200 pages. Maybe I'll try one last time. Tacitus is great but I'm not able to read him in the original yet.

I dislike Plato, though he's a fun read. Heidegger is a poet's philosopher, so good choice.

>>7585463

Can you read Rilke in the original? Also Emerson is hit or miss but his hits are great. Uriel comes to mind.

Joyce is great. Ovid is great, have you read the Arthur Golding translation?

I haven't read either of those philosophers yet.

>>7585444

Did you read them both in the original? I can kind of squint through a side by side leopardi but Mallarme, even though I'm strong in french, is beyond me with his plays on sound.

Don't know who D'annunzio is. Dosto I dislike very much.

Nietzsche is fine if you don't take him seriously. Satre is never fine.

Poets:
>Rilke
>Dante

Writers:
>Steinbeck
>DFW

Philosophers:
>Evola
>Schopenhauer

>>7585444
Solid choices all around, I'm not much of a D'Annunzio man myself but I see his attractive. Have you tried Marinetti? Shit's fun.

>>7585488
>Plato
>Heidegger

We Kehre here. Nice choiches too, give me a primer on Blake?

>>7585607
You're over my head, probably, but I enjoed what I've read of Melville and Heidegger so cheers, man. Can't really abide Aquinas though, what do you find interesting in him?

Poets
>don't read much poetry, ought to start really, so I'll just say I quite liked Basho's Narrow Road to the Deep North and Ginsberg's Howl yes, meme me to death if you like

Writers
>Hunter S. Thompson
>William Burroughs

Philosophers
>Nietzsche
>Deleuze

>>7585444
Gib me recs pls
Poets:
>John Milton
>Walt Whitman
Writers:
>Ernest Hemingway
>Raymond Carver
Philosophers:
>Laozi
>Thoreau

>>7585444
Poets
>Browning
>Eliot

Writers
>Melville
>Shakespeare (his plays which, although written in verse usually, I don't consider poetry)

Philosophers (don't read much philosophy so my range is limited)
>Kierkegaard
>Aristotle

Pessoa
Alvarez de Azevedo

Tolstoy
Dostoevsky

Sartre
Kierkegaard

>>7585654
>Dante and DFW on the same list
That's like every generation of shit. You've got Evola though, so at least your politics are all right.

Poets:
>William Blake
>Omar Khayyam

Writers:
>Yukio Mishima
>Umberto Eco

Philosophers:
>Albert Camus
>Julius Evola

>>7585444
Poets
>Eliot
>Swenson
Writers
>Malamud
>Pynchon
Philosophers
>Deleuze and Guattari
>Hegel

>>7585758
What's wrong with Dante?

>>7585463
I haven't read much philosophy - Plato's the only one I've read multiple works on (from a Straussian lens).
>Poets
John Donne
Andrew Marvell
>Writers
Michael Ondaatje
Ralph Ellison
>Philosophers
Plato
Donald Davidson

>>7585786
>>Swenson

May?

Personally I've tabbed through her LoA collection at the library and don't get why Bloom vouches for her. Any poems to change my mind?

>>7585797
Are we specifically referring to the Divine Comedy?

>>7585811
Do you have a specific gripe concerning the Divine Comedy?

>>7585811
That's what I've read of his, yes

>>7585674
Stick to poetry where your taste is excellent, it gets worse as you go down your list.

Roast me:

Poets:
> Brecht
> Allen Ginsberg

Writers:
> Hunter S. Thompson
> Douglas Adams

>> Bonus:
> Jack Kerouac

Philosophers:
> John Stuart Mill
> Jeremy Bentham

>Poets:
William Blake
Paul Célan
>Writers:
Gustave Flaubert
Marcel Proust
>Philosophers:
Theodor W. Adorno
Heraclitus

>4u

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Archilochus
William Blake

Shakespeare
Umberto Eco

Epicurus
Habermas

>>7585607
You have a profound distaste for the vast majority of things, and, though you think about suicide often, you know know you could never end yourself.

>>7585444
Nice. Your favorite philosophers are shit, though.

Poets:
>Rimbaud
>Niesche
Writers:
>Céline
>Dostoyevsky
Philosophers:
>Hegel
>Kierkegaard

Poets:
>Burns
>Blake
Writers:
>Dostoyevsky
>Shakespeare
Philosophers:
>Peirce
>Hegel

>>7585890
JSM and Bentham? Say it ain't so.

>>7585914
>You have a profound distaste for the vast majority of things

half and half

> though you think about suicide often

not once in my life

>>7585909

cool dude

>>7585859
thanks, I guess.

>Hölderlin
>Goethe

>Dostoyevsky
>Houellebecq

>Zizek
>Heidegger

Poets:
>Stevens
>Chaucer
Writers:
>Proust
>Gaddis
Philosophers:
>Kierkegaard
>Wittgenstein

>>7586146
You are incapable of sustained happiness.

Poets:
>W. B. Yeats
>Ted Hughes

Writers:
>William Burroughs
>Irvine Welsh

Philosophers:
>Arthur Schopenhauer
>Emil Cioran

>>7585444
Writers:
Kafka
Borges

Poets:
Hölderlin
Schiller

>>7586181
You either take or are very interested in drugs.

>>7586188
Forgot the Philosophers:
Kierkegaard
Hegel

>>7585444

>Poets

I dislike poetry and rarely read it.

>Writers

Dostoyevsky
McCarthy

>Philosophers

Schopenhauer
Thomas Paine

>>7586197
You treat literature as a hobby.

>>7586201

Well then I partake in my hobby daily.

>>7585444
Poets:
>Virgil
>Milton

Writers:
>Pynchon
>Montaigne

Philosophers:
>Spinoza
>Kant

>>7586146
You have a reverence for classics, particularly the relatively genius

>>7585640
I'm OP.
>Did you read them both in original?
I'm Italian so I read Leopardi in the original language. I read also Mallarmé in the original, but I need the traslation nearby.
>Don't know who D'annunzio is
The Fascist and straight version of Oscar Wilde (I'm not a fascist, I'm not even right-wing btw, but I like him very much)
I've noticed that everyone said that my philosophers aren't good, actually I read more of pure literature than philosophy, but I know most of them and I choose Nietzsche and Sartre just because they represents exactly how I am, a nihilist that after a period of depression understood that life can be beautiful because it's meaningless, a man can be a ubermensch and he can be an optimist thanks to the existentialism.

>>7586307

>Nihilist

So, how's middle school?

>>7585444
Poets:
>Robert Penn Warren
>Rilke
Writers:
>McCarthy
>J.M. Coetzee
Philosophers:
none

>>7585634
you'd like basil bunting if you haven't read him

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Poets:
>Lautreamont
>Różewicz
Writers:
>Genet
>Blanchot
Philosophers:
>Foucault
>Heidegger

Poets:
>Rilke
>Valery

Writers:
>Beckett
>Faulkner

Philosophers:
>Kant
>Kierkegaard

>>7586413
i bet you'd like the southern fugitive poets
robert penn warren
john gould fletcher
john crowe ransom
allen tate

http://www.poetryfoundation.org/poem/240308

>>7585640
>Nietzsche is fine if you don't take him seriously.
Fuck of cuck

>>7585640
>Nietzsche is fine if you don't take him seriously.
What an aggressively pleb thing to say when posturing

>>7585444
Poets:
>Shelley
>Keats
Writers:
>Joyce
>Montaigne
Philosophers:
>Marx
>Gautama

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Poets:
>Shakepeare
>Rimbaud
Writers:
>Borges
>Tolstoy
Philosophers:
>Zhuangzi
>Leibniz

>>7586352
>Philosophers:
>none

How does it feel knowing that 75% of what you're reading is going over your head?

Poets
Shakespeare
John Donne or Neruda (but place holder since I want to read more poetry)

Writers (For those two bricks)
Tolstoy
Cervantes

Philosophers
Ghazali
Rousseau

>>7587042
are you sure? poets are, at least, philosophers

Poets
>Yeats
>Verlaine
Writers
>Borges
>Platonov
Philosophers
>Nietzsche
>Kierkegaard

>Poets
Homer
Rilke
>Writers
Hesse
Hawthorne
>Philosophers
Augustine
Kant

>Bonus: Historians
de Tocqueville
Herodotus

>Poets
Homer
Milton
I've never tried to deepen my knowledge of poetry, so I'm just posting the ones I've read and enjoyed.

>Writers
Gaddis
Thomas Mann

>Philosophers
Hegel
Heraclitus

>>7585907

It's Patrish up in heah.

>poets

Stevens
Donne

>prose

Faulkner
Conrad

>philosophy

Adorno
Hegel

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>>7585926
>Peirce

>Poets
Not into poetry.
>Writers
Dostoevsky
Joyce
>Philosophers
Hume
Kant

>>7585607
>Writers:
>Melville
>Hawthorne
my nigger

>Poets

Baudelaire

Pessoa


>Writers

Borges

Mishima

>Philosophers

Schopenhauer

Kierkegaard

Poets:
>Keats
>Shakespeare

Writers:
>Proust
>Joyce

Philosophers
>Sarte
>Plato

>>7587592
the most acceptable answer on the thread, long live based hume, also if you like shitting on god then flew's falsification principle is something you'd enjoy, most full proof argument against gods existence.

Seriously smhing at all the people itt uninterested in poetry

>Poets
John Milton
George Herbert

>[Prose] writers
Lev Tolstoy
Henry James

>Philosophers
Spinoza
Kierkegaard

Poets:
Whitman
Percy Shelley

Writers:
Burroughs
Murakami

Philosophers/theorists:
Fanon
Lao Tzu
Nietzsche (fuck 2)

>Poets
Rilke
Hawthorne
>Writers
Kafka
John Williams
>Philosophers(cant choose two)
Kierkegaard
Wittgenstein
Aristotle
Hume

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Poets:
Keats
Pound

Writers:
Hesse
Hazlitt

Philosophers:
Nietzsche
Spinoza

Poets:
Whitman
Ginsberg

Writers:
Pynchon
Burroughs

Philosophers:
Hegel
Sartre

>>7587633
Go with Aristotle and Kierkegaard,
Youll look smarter

>>7587150
Reminds me of how Poets and Philosophers would argue incessantly in the Classical period about which was more valid or insightful. Ultimately they are grasping for the exact same things through equally useful but opposite methods.

Poets
>N/A
Writers
>Dostoevsky
>Tolstoy
Philosophers
>Nietzsche
>Plato

Poets:
>Shiwu / Stonemountain
>Emily Dickinson
Writers:
>Thomas Ligotti
>Dostoyevsky
Philosophers:
>Heraclitus
>Dharmakirti

>>7587643
Not about looking smarter its about enjoying content friend

>>7587592
You're new into reading
>>7587617
You like to feel melancholy
>>7587620
You're boastful about your knowledge
>>7587624
You sneak genre fiction when you don't think anyone is looking
>>7587630
I don't know, but I hate your taste
>>7587633
Undergrad who reads often, takes it more seriously than most
>>7587638
You like to talk about your reading with peers
>>7587639
Alcoholic
>>7587649
First day on /lit/

>>7587663
responding to posts. based

Poets
>T.S. Eliot
>Anne Sexton
Writers
>Robert Walser
>Miranda July
Philosophers
>Deleuze
>Guattari

>>7586316
kek

Poets:
>Swinburne
>Emerson
Writers
>Hawthorne
>Nabokov
Philosophers
>Hegel
>Bergson

>poets
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Chaucer

>writers
Chuck Klosterman
Hunter S. Thompson

>philosophers
Chomsky
does Derrida count? if so Derrida

>>7587606

yeah I'm a 100 percent american literati these days. I kind of wish that Melville's reaction to Emerson would have survived as long as Emerson's ideas themselves. Probably would fix half the problems the country's facing right now with racial politics, Whitmanism, etc.

Poets:
>Pavese
>Eliot

Writers
>Thomas Bernhard
>Joseph Roth

Philosophers
>Schopenhauer
>Hume

>>7586434
>>7586512

holy shit I didn't mean to type that. I was going to say "If you don't take his TONE seriously."

Nietzsche is a neat enough writer and important to read. My problem is with his writing style.

>>7587682
You have a strong feminine side
>>7587677
You have a hard time making up your mind about things
>>7585800
You haven't read the classics

>>7587701
>You have a strong feminine side
Made me kek because people usually imply the opposite, especially when I mention Emerson or Nabokov. What's your rationale?

>>7587709
I interpreted the Emerson and Nabokov as overcompensation, the Swinburne as general confusion/angst and Bergson as a peak into your true inner soft side
don't take these too seriously anon

>>7587729
>the Swinburne as general confusion/angst
that's where you fucked up son, I just like his dank rhymes

>>7587663
not an undergrad, hoping to be one though

>>7587735
anyway who says having a feminine side is bad

>Homer
>Rimbaud

>Huysmans
>Pynchon

>Plato
>Wittgenstein

>>7586430
Thanks! I'll look it up!
I didn't know about them and I indeed like the poem you posted.

>>7585907
>>7587033
>>7587617
>>7587330
>>7587201
>>7587633
>>7587624
>>7587197
I like you

>>7587692

you think that criticism is the same thing as being smart

Poets:
Wallace Stevens
Friedrich Hölderlin

Writers:
Kafka
Milan Kundera

Philosophers:
Heidegger
Deleuze

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Willy Blake
Walt Whitman

David Wallace
Joyce

Soren Kierkegaard
Zizek because I'm alive to witness his youtube rants.

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poets:
- Leopardi
- Dante

writers:
- Durrenmatt
- Schiller
philosophers:
-Stirner
-schopenhauer

Trakl
Simic

Pavese
Musil

Bataille
Blanchot

>>7588167
You read more book in translation than you do in your native language.

>>7589295
Above average IQ.

>>7589327
You have had homosexual experiences.

Geoffrey Chaucer
Percy Shelley

Charles Dickens
George Eliot

Aristotle
Aquinas

>>7589460
Fuck you faggot.

You have a very rigid perception of what a good book is.

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>Milton
>Keats

>Kafka
>Dazai

>Kierkegaard
>Wittgenstein

Poets:
lmao, don't read poetry
Writers:
>Dostoyevsky
Philosophers/Writers:
>Nietzsche
>Camus
>Rand

>>7589354
You think life is mostly despair, but you think is possible to find it enjoyable if you take a conscious step into a believe based on faith, which you haven't dare to take yet.

>>7587688
You seem to be disciplined and self-controlled outside, but you tend to be worrisome and insecure inside.

>>7587657
You have a tendency to be critical of yourself, because of that you have serious doubts as to whether you have made the right decision or done the right thing.

>>7587278
You look like the kind of people that prefer a certain amount of change and variety and become dissatisfied when hemmed in by restrictions and limitations.

>>7590386
FUCK, forgot:
Writers:
>Kafka

>>7590386
you have the intellect of a seagull

>>7591002
That's being too generous

Poets:
>Leopardi
>Eliot
Writers:
>Alexandre Dumas
>Vonnegut
Philosophers (I'm not trying to be an attention whore, I just love them):
>Machiavelli
>Foucault
>Walter Benjamin
>Max Weber

>>7590386
A lot of your life and the world you live in is inside your head. I think.

Poets:
>John Milton
>W.H.Auden
Writers:
>Lord Dunsany
>Tolstoy
Philosophers:
>Kierkegaard
>Nietzsche

Poets:
>Robert Frost
>Juvenal

Writers:
>Tacitus
>Hemingway

Philosophers:
>Evola
>Marcus Aurelius

>>7592210
You are desperately trying to attain some sense of manhood, you have always been the median in life, average, common, unpeculiar.

>>7592210
It upsets you that women don't have instinct for honor or moral codes.

>>7592210
honest person

>>7592175
undecisive

>>7589460
has yet to develop his own aesthetics


>Poets
Ovid
Baudelaire
>Writers
Le Clezio
Melville
>Philosophers
Descartes
Merleau-Ponty

>poets:
Larkin
Betjeman

>writers:
Bernhard
H. James

>philosophers:
never read a single one in my life

>>7592279

"/lit/ - never read a single one in my life"

>>7592288
/lit/ is not a philosophy board tho. I'm quite confused at the ubiquitous assertion one finds today that writers should be required to be political thinkers first and stylists second, if at all. For my part, I see nothing of interest in philosophy aside from much delightful obfuscatory language, which is however employed to rather limited ends, and a vehement, all-denigrating elitism, which I find very much unlike the spirit of the novel. That everyone who wishes to write should be an optimate and morally upright, this suggestion I deem offensive.

>>7592324

>posts life story

fuck off, pleb.

>>7592324

>For my part, I see nothing of interest in philosophy

You just admitted to never reading a single one in your life. This is all blind speculation to you. Stop posturing like an absolute wank.

>>7592336
That is literally what novels are, you damn Nazi. Not histories of ideas, not political theory, nor considerations of morality. A novel is a story. It is not the realm of philosophers. Different profession altogether. Everyone who claims otherwise wants to extinguish the story for the parable.

>>7592343
I've read theory before - sociology, psychoanalysis, and I've browsed some philosophical texts. But to be able to lay claim to a favourite philosopher is another thing altogether.

>>7592349

>a bunch of disparate platitudes to defend your never having read any philosophy seriously

This is the most sophomoric form of contrarianism. Read more, you dolt.

>>7592353

>and I've browsed some

Browsed, you say? Well I guess you're quite the authority then. Go get 'em, genius.

>>7592354
>>7592356
Neither of you has attempted to explain to me why the knowledge of philosophy is supposed to be a necessary prerequisite of engaging with literature. I don't recall Austen, Dickens or even Joyce being known for their intimate knowledge of any philosophical tradition. So again, why this literal injunction to read philosophy or quit writing?

>>7592365
>even Joyce
I remember Dedalus going on and on about Aquinas in Portrait.

>>7592456
He's just rationalizing the creeping realization of his own inferiority and possibly mental handicap

>>7592456
Which you would expect to read from a writer who had been educated by Jesuits. The theme of breaking free from tradition, represented by religious and familial observances, is one he most overtly expressed and it is in this involuntary context that Joyce's discussion of the scholastics can be read.

>>7585444
come va il liceo op?

>>7592473
And here we see the crux of this thread and this board: never mind the pleasure and subjective experience of reading: what is truly important is to appear intelligent. God forbid that one should read selectively, just for entertainment. No, to be able to reproduce the intellectual history of western civilization is what is instrumental to developing literary taste, and not one's subjective appreciation of the literary voice.

>>7592508

>No, to be able to reproduce the intellectual history of western civilization is what is instrumental to developing literary taste

Spare anon your coy bullshit. No one is telling you to "reproduce the intellectual history of western civilization", anon is merely suggesting that you stop "browsing" philosophical texts and perhaps fucking read one from start to finish this time.

The amount of posturing nonsense that you've thrown around here really does make lines like
>what is truly important is to appear intelligent.
indict you to a fucking hilarious degree.

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>>7592508

>too lazy to do the reading but too pseudo to admit it

>>7585444
Poets:
>Wordsworth
>Whitman
Writers:
>Hunter S Thompson
>Kurt Vonnegut
Philosophers:
>Buddha
>Jesus

>>7592508
I don't care whether or not I look intelligent. I do however care about reading intelligent works. There's tens of thousands of works of awful fanfiction that I could be reading if I didn't care about quality.

>>7592261
>Le Clezio
>Melville

I like you, you're probably french and like to pay attention to small, seemingly unimportant details. Symbolism would be right up your sleeve

>>7589737
Natural born pessimist

>>7592175
You like to try new things

>Poets
Keats
Apollinaire

>Writers
Pynchon
Le Clézio

>Philosophers
Derrida (mostly his language philo rest is shit)
Kant

>>7585444
Poets: Dante and Matos
Writers: Wolfe and Dostoevksy
Philosophers: Plato and Aquinas

>>7586753
yes, I like your list. You and I are both men of a sensitive nature.

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Poets: Dylan Thomas
Walt Whitman

Writers: Ernest Hemmingway
John Steinbeck

Philosophers: Ralph Waldo Emerson
Henry David Thoreau

>>7589365

You're European and have probably been in a cult

>>7592195

You listen to Mahler and smoke cigars.

>>7592210

You go to toga parties and do the mashed potato to avoid looking awkward.

>Hughes
>Rimbaud

>Dostoevsky
>Carver

>Schopenhauer
>Hume

Poets:
>William Blake
>Wilfred Owen
Writers:
>Ayn Rand
>Fyodor Dostoyevsky
Philosophers:
>Albert Camus
>Marcus Aruelius

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>poets
tupac
mamet
>writers
jesus of nazerath
martin scorcese
chuck palahniuk
>philosophers
camus
tupic

>Poets
Dickenson
Whitman

>Writers
Emerson
Hemingway

>Philosophy
Pyrrho
Zizek

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>>7585607
>Hawthorne

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poets
>John Donne
>e.e. cummings

writers
>Hemingway
>Steinbeck

philosophers
>Lao Tzu
>David Hume

>>7594591
Ha

>Poets
Brautigan
Loy
>Writers
Kafka
Marlowe
>Philosophy
Kierkegaard
Wittgenstein

>>7594763

not liking Hawthorne is Being A Nonreader 101 material

Poets:
>T.S Eliot
>John Milton
Writers:
>Joyce
>Kafka or Gombrowicz
Philosophers:
>Nietzsche
>Levinas

>>7594254
You wish you were an existentialist and you hate your life. You deperately want to travel the world and the country, but find a lack of opportunity and purpose. Hows that novel coming along?

Poets:
>Ginsberg
>Frost
Writers:
>Kerouac
>Hemingway
Philosophers:
>Gautama Buddha
>Confucius

>Poets
Lorca
Nicanor Parra
>Writers
Bolaño
Cortázar
>Philosophers
Aristotle
Heidegger

Some poetry recs would be welcome, since I don't really read that much poetry

>>7596051
You are younger than 18

>>7585444
poets:
>wordsworth
>yeats
writers:
>tolstoy
>chesterton
philosphers
>kirkeguaard
>Desiderius Erasmus

Poets:
>Mallarme
>Parshchikov
Writers:
>Ducasse
>Robbe-Grillet
Philosophers:
>Derrida
>Rudnev

How Distant Everything Is!
I don’t understand why we must do things in this world, why we must have friends and aspirations, hopes and dreams. Wouldn’t it be better to retreat to a faraway corner of the world, where all its noise and complications would be heard no more? Then we could renounce culture and ambitions; we would lose everything and gain nothing; for what is there to be gained from this world? There are people tho whom gain is unimportant, who are hopelessly unhappy and lonely. We are so closed to one another! And yet, were we to be totally open to each other, reading into the depths of our souls, how much of our destiny would we see? We are so lonely in life the we must ask ourselves if the loneliness
of dying is not a symbol of our human existence. Can there be any consolation at the last moment? This willingness to live and die in society is a mark of great deficiency. It is a thousand times preferable to die somewhiere alone and abandoned so that you can die without melodeamatic posturing, unseen by anyone.
I despise people who on their deathbed master themselves and adopt a pose in order to impress. Tears do not burn except in solitude. Those who ask to be surrounded by friends when they die do so out of fear and inability to live their final moments alone. They want to forget death at the moment of death. They lack inifinite heroism. Why don’t they lock their door and suffer those maddening sensations with a lucidity and a fear beyond all limits?
We are so isolated form everything! But isn’t everything equally inaccessible to us? The deepest and most organic death is death in solitude, when even light becomes a principle of death. In such moments you will be severed from life, from love, simles, friends and even from death. And you will ask yourself if there is anything besides the nothingness of the world and your own nothingness.
On the heights of despair-Cioran

ITT: inconsistent taste and faggotry
>look how unique my selections are compared to everyone else's

poets:
>Shelley
>Schiller

writers:
>Melville
>Poe

Philosophers:
Plato
Leibniz

>H.D.
>Keats

>Nabokov
>Hesse

>Heidegger
>Camus

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>>7585444
>poets
Nesimî
doesn't matter
>writers
Abbas Sayar
Anthony Burgess
>philosophers
meh. I haven't read enough of different philosophers to claim favorites among them. I respect ibn Tufeyl's and Schopenhauer's reasoning though, that I can say.
>>7594584
You sound like a meek, not necessarily in the bad way. Just docile.
>>7597272
Perhaps only a coincidence but half of those names are among my first-reads in foreign languages.

Writers:
Dumas
Steinbeck

Poets:
Homer
Ovid

Philosophers
Marcus Aurelius
Mencius

>>7597282

Amending my writers
Luo Guanzhong in place of Steinbeck

Poets:
>Rimbaud
>Dylan Thomas
Writers:
>Kafka
>Camus
Philosophers:
>Sartre
>Nietzsche

>>7597725
I might swap Camus with De Montaigne

>>7587701
>You have a hard time making up your mind about things

I mean, it's not exactly a bold guess to make, but yes.

Poets
>Melville
>Thoreau

Authors
>Osamu Dazai
>Joseph Heller

Philosophers
>Bentham
>Marcus Aurelius