Line 1: Vincente Huidobro (Spanish, Chile)
Line 2: Beowulf (Old English)
Line 3: The Bible (The Gospel According to
John, I:1, Hellenistic Greek)
Line 4: Allen Ginsberg (English, USA)
Line 5: Rainer Maria Rilke (German)
Line 6: Derek Walcott (English, St. Lucia)
Line 7: Aimé Césaire (French, Martinique)
Line 8: Tomas Tranströmer (Swedish)
Line 9: Vasko Popa (Serbian)
Line 10: Arthur Rimbaud (French)
Line 11: James Tate (English, USA)
Line 12: Luo Incantation (Kenyan)
Line 13: Yehuda Amichai (Hebrew, Israel)
Line 14: Elizabeth Bishop (English, USA)
Line 15: Mahmoud Darwish (Arabic,
Palestine)
Line 16: Jelaluddin Rumi (Farsi, Turkey)
Line 17: Carlos Drummond de Andrade
(Portuguese, Brazil)
Line 18: Tu Fu (Chinese)
Line 19: Nora Marks Dauenhauer (Tlingit,
Alaska)
Line 20: Alamanda (lenga dÕoc, France)
Line 21: Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz (Spanish,
Mexico)
Line 22: Tomaz Salamun (Slovenian)
Line 23: William Shakespeare (English,
Great Britain)
Line 24: Wislawa Szymborska (Polish)
Line 25: Dante Alighieri (Italian)
Line 26: Velimir Khlebnikov (Russian)
Line 27: Yang Lian (Chinese)
Line 28: Luhyia Riddle (Kenyan)
Line 29: Francis Ponge (French)
Line 30: Cecilia Vicu–a (Spanish, Chile)
Line 31: Alberto Caeiro/Fernando Pessoa
(Portuguese)
Line 32: Miribai (Hindi, India)
Line 33: Thich Nhat Hanh (Vietnamese)
Line 34: Ono no Komachi (Japanese)
Line 35: William Butler Yeats (English,
Ireland)
Line 36: Nazim Hikmet (Turkish)
Line 37: José Rizal (Tagalog, Philipines)
Line 38: The Poetic Edda (Old Norse)
Line 39: Ai (English, USA)
Line 40: Bob Kaufman (English, USA)
Line 41: Matsuo Basho (Japanese)
Line 42: Catullus (Latin)
Line 43: Anna Akhmatova (Russian)
Line 44: Joâo Cabral de Melo Neto
(Portuguese, Brazil)
Line 45: Pablo Neruda (Spanish, Chile)
Line 46: Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
(German)
Line 47: U Sam Oeur (Khmer, Cambodia)
Line 48: Kurt Schwitters (German)
Line 49: Amiri Baraka (English, USA)
Line 50: Sappho (Greek)