/lit/ - Literature

/lit/ can't into poetry, everybody knows that.

That being said, some of my favorites are:
Stéphane Mallarmé, Rainer Maria Rilke, Fernando Pessoa, John Berryman, Pablo Neruda, Ezra Pound, Paul Valéry, Vladimir Mayakovsky, Ingeborg Bachmann, Paul Celan, William Carlos Williams, García Lorca, Ovid...
Those are the ones available in English (and I unfortunately don't think native anglophone poetry is very good overall), but many of my favorites wrote in my native language: João Cabral de Melo Neto, Augusto dos Anjos, Ferreira Gullar, Sousandrade, Manuel Bandeira, Murilo Mendes, Cassiano Ricardo. I don't know if any of them were translated.

>>10010187
A translation is as good as the translator. Not all translators are good, so reading the original is ideal, but there's nothing wrong with it on principle.
Translating poetry (and literature in general) is an art in itself, and I would encourage any aspiring poet to do it.