I can't think of a case where poems changed the world, but what they do is they change people's understanding of what's going on in the world.

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• Stephen Hawking

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• John Muir

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• Marcus Aurelius

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• Oscar Wilde

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• Kanye West

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• Les Brown

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• Thomas Aquinas

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• Jordan Peterson

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• Dalai Lama

  Saturday, Jul 06, 1935
  

• Pope John Paul Ii

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• Friedrich Nietzsche

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• Leonardo Da Vinci

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• Billy Graham

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  Monday, Jun 07, 1943
  

• Robin Williams

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