Preface: Selection Process for compiling this Poetry Anthology
Isa & Taittiriya Upanishads (600 B.C.), "O Remember" & "Wonder of Joy"
Lao Tzu (604 B.C.-517 B.C.), Tao Te Ching, Verses #4, 6, 11, 33 (circa 520 B.C.)
Plato (428 B.C.-348 B.C.), Phaedrus, Philebus, Seventh Epistle (circa 360 B.C.)
Chuang Tzu (369 B.C.-286 B.C.), "Great Awakening", "Butterfly Dream",
                  "Transformation", "Nature of the Tao" (circa 300 B.C.)
Plotinus (204-270), The Enneads, I.6.9 "On Beauty" (250 A.D.)
Lu Chi (261-303), Wen Fu: The Art of Writing (302 A.D.)
Han Yu (768-824), "Proclamation to the Crocodiles" (819 A.D.)
Jalal al-Din Rumi (1207-1273), Quatrains #82, 1246 & "Unmarked Boxes" (1250)
Dante Alighieri (1265-1321), Commedia: Paradiso XXXIII.85-93, 121-145 (1321)
Matsuo Basho (1644-1694), "Go to the pine or bamboo", Kawazu Awase (1686)
Goethe (1749-1832), "Harzreise" ("Winter Journey is the Harz") (1777)
Goethe (1749-1832), Faust, Part I (1808), Part II Chorus Mysticus (1831)
William Wordsworth (1770-1850), "Tintern Abbey" (July 13, 1798)
George Gordon Byron (1788-1824), "The Prisoner of Chillon" (June 22, 1816)
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882), Selections & Poems from Journals (1830-1831)
Henry David Thoreau (1817-1862), "Higher Laws" from Walden (1854)
Charles Baudelaire (1821-1867), "The Albatross" from Flowers of Evil (1857)
Emily Dickinson (1830-1886), Poems #111, 1129, 1212, 1755 (1859-1872)
James Clerk Maxwell (1831-1879), "To the Air of Lörelei" (January 20, 1858)
Algernon Charles Swinburne (1837-1909), "Rococo", Poems and Ballads (1866)
Rabindranath Tagore (1861-1941), Gitanjali: Song Offerings, Verse #60 (1912)
Rainer Maria Rilke (1875-1926), Letters to a Young Poet, #1 (Feb. 17, 1903)
Albert Einstein (1879-1955), E=mc² (1907), "The Mysterious" (1931),
                                        "Universe" (1949), "A Man of Value" (1955)
James Joyce (1882-1941), Selections from Ulysses (1922)
William Carlos Williams (1883-1963), "The Great Figure", Sour Grapes (1921)
Federico Garcia Lorca (1898-1936), "Somnambule Ballad" (1924)
Stanley Kunitz (1905-2006), "The Illumination" & "The Portrait" (1971)
George Oppen (1908-1984), "Chartres" & "Poem 27" Of Being Numerous (1968)
Kathleen Raine (1908-2003), "Amo Ergo Sum", The Year One (1951)
Octavio Paz (1914-1998), "Between What I See and What I Say..." (1976)
Robert Lax (1915-2000), Poem #3, 10, 27 A Thing That Is (1997)
Anthony Hecht (1923-2004), "A Hill", The Hard Hours (1967)
Kenneth Koch (1925-2002), "On Aesthetics", One Train (1994)
Allen Ginsberg (1926-1997), "Gone, Gone, Gone", Death & Fame (1999)
Gary Snyder (b. May 8, 1930), "The Persimmons" Left Out in the Rain (1986)
Mary Oliver (b. Sept. 10, 1935), "Such Singing in the Wild Branches" (2003)
Mary Oliver, "Messenger", "The Uses of Sorrow", "Thirst" (2006)
Sharon Olds (b. Nov. 19, 1942), "The Blue Dress", The Gold Cell (1987)
Brenda Hillman (b. March 27, 1951), "Ellipsis", White Dress (1985)
Joy Harjo (b. May 9, 1951), "She Had Some Horses" (1983)