Poets
- Nguyễn Bỉnh Khiêm, considered a saint by the Cao Dai religion (1492–1587)
- Nguyễn Chí Thiện, dissident poet (b. 1939)
- Nguyễn Du, wrote The Tale of Kieu (1765–1820)
- Hoa Nguyen, American poet (b. 1967)
- Nguyễn Khuyến (1835–1909)
- Tố Hữu (born Nguyễn Kim Thành, 1920–2002)
- Nguyễn Trãi, poet and national and cultural hero of Vietnam (1380–1442)
- Nguyễn Công Trứ, poet and general (1778–1858)
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“There beneath the Roman ruin where the purple flowers grow,
Came that “Ave atque Vale” of the poet’s hopeless woe,
Tenderest of Roman poets nineteen hundred years ago,”
—Alfred Tennyson (1809–1892)
“More significant than the fact that poets write abstrusely, painters paint abstractly, and composers compose unintelligible music is that people should admire what they cannot understand; indeed, admire that which has no meaning or principle.”
—Eric Hoffer (1902–1983)
“In this nadir of poetic repute, when the only verse that most people read from one year’s end to the next is what appears on greetings cards, it is well for us to stop and consider our poets.... Poets are the leaven in the lump of civilization.”
—Elizabeth Janeway (b. 1913)