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The word “unfriend” first appeared in a 1275 medieval poem titled “Brut” by Layamon. Coincidentally, this is also the same poem in which the word “muggle” first appears. Time travel, anyone?

Nicknamed the female Homer, Sappho has become an symbol of homosexual love between women. Her poetry skill was widely known, and Plato even called her the “tenth Muse.”

The epitaph on Emily Dickinson’s grave composed by the poet herself, consist of two words: ‘called back’. Speaking of Dickinson, she wrote nearly 1,800 poems during her lifetime, but only about 10 were published while she was alive.

One of the most popular forms of writing short poems is the haiku. Originating from Japan, the haiku has only seventeen syllables. There are three lines containing five, seven, and again five syllables.