My preferences

The Rules: Don't take too long to think about it. Fifteen authors (poets included) who have always influenced you and will always stick with you. List the first 15 you can recall in no more than 15 minutes, and they don't have to be listed in order of relevance to you. Tag at least 15 friends, including me, because I'm interested in seeing what authors my friends chose. (To do this, go to your Notes tab on your profile page, paste the rules in a new note, list your 15 picks, and tag your friends.)

Baudelaire
Mallarmé
Montaigne
Monod
Camus
Solzhenitsyn
Houellebecq
Darwin
Schwab
Lynn
Claude Bernard
Pascal
Bastiat
Vrab
Primo Levi