Poets we admire, of varying styles, include: Louise Glück; George Oppen; Adrienne Rich; Tracy K. Smith; Anne Carson; Chloe Honum; Anne Sexton; Audre Lorde; Leonard Cohen; William Carlos Williams; Robert Creely.

Philosophers and writers who utilized aphorism include: Emil Cioran; Eugene Thacker; Blaise Pascal; Erasmus; Baltasar Gracián; La Rouchefoucauld; Franz Kafka; Jean Baudrillard; Maël Renouard; Paul Valéry; Stanisław Jerzy Lec; Mikhail Turovsky; Lugwig Wittgenstein.