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Rumi was a 13th-century Persian poet and Sufi mystic in Anatolia, whose Masnavi became a major text of Islamic spirituality.
Saint John of the Cross was a Spanish mystic and Carmelite friar whose 16th-century poems, including Spiritual Canticle, are classics of Christian literature.
Kabir was a 15th-century Indian devotional poet, whose Hindi-region verses challenged caste and ritual while influencing bhakti and Sikh traditions.
Attar of Nishapur was a 12th to 13th-century Persian Sufi poet, best known for The Conference of the Birds, an allegorical quest poem.
Novalis was a German Romantic poet and philosopher, notable for Hymns to the Night (1800), a central work of early German Romanticism.
Kahlil Gibran was a Lebanese American poet and artist, best known for The Prophet, a prose-poetry book first published in New York in 1923.
Sohrab Sepehri was an Iranian poet and painter, associated with modern Persian verse and known for lyrical nature imagery in the 1960s.
