where to start reading / what you like most?

[benthejack]

My time on this forum is my only real exposure to poetry. I was never interested when I was younger, and I'm not sure what triggered my massive desire to write.

I find that I really have no concept of what great poetry is as I've never read much. Where do I start? I had a look in the poets list forum but there are hundreds, it's like choosing candy in a foreign country (like China where they eat weiiiiird candy)

I'm particularly interested in philosophy so if anyone knows of any good philosopoets that would be a good start.

But I'm also open to anything, I do want to branch out.

I guess the question simply put is: Who are your favourite poets and what do they write about?

Cheers,
Ben


--edit--
I've decided that I'm going to read a couple of poems by these people each day and say what I think about them by their name.

so far I have been suggested:
T. S. Eliot --The hollow men--
Sylvia Plath
William Butler Yeats
Emily Dickerson
Pablo neruda
Kipling
john donne * 2
walt whitman
robert frost
charles bukowski (I love what I've seen so far in Billy's post)
Shelley
Byron
Coleridge
Kublai Khan
robert burns
Louise Gluck: The Wild Iris
Mark Strand: Reasons for Moving
Sandra Beasley: Theories of Falling
Nick Flynn: Some Ether
Charles Simic: The Voice at 3 AM
James Wright: Collected Poems
Li-Young Lee: Rose
Arthur Rimbaud: A Season in Hell and The Drunken Boat
Philip Levine: What Work Is
Ed Pavlic: Paraph of Bone & Other Kinds of Blue
Baron Wormser: Impenitent Notes
The Norton Anthology of Poetry 5th Edition
Henry David
Ralph Waldo