Who is the Most Famous Poet Ever?

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I'm also curious as to the most influential poets. I named Homer not necessarily because he's so well read, but because his stories are an inspiration to countless numbers of writers (whether they know it or not), as well as Homer Simpson.

Though I went for King David because I wanted a specific poet from that fat old book, and, aside from him being explicitly known as a poet (Moses wrote poems too, for instance), "The Lord is my shepherd", "Have mercy upon me O God", and the fact that his process as a poet is so 'well-documented', if Samuel and the legends around Psalms are to be believed.

The western literary tradition is founded on Greek literature and the bible (which is also partially Greek literature, in ten New Testament) and on that basis Homer is influential.
Similarly, the entirety of Indian literature and a large part of its tradition is founded on the Mahabharata and to a lesser extent the Ramayana. It’s also hugely influential in the South East Asian tradition.

It becomes difficult when we include semi legendary figures like Homer and Vyasa, because of their cultural foundation status. 
Homer is not historically identifiable, nor is Vyasa. Perhaps restricting it to “poets with a biography” will make it more meaningful.
So in that sense we can have Virgil, but not Homer from the Graeco Roman classics.
And Kalidasa, but not Vyasa, in Indian literature.

Restricting myself to the Western canon, I would say Virgil was the most influential for later poets overall - including Dante and Milton - and Spenser the most influential in English. Look at Spenser’s poems and compare them with Chaucer’s crude ramblings. If we were to include the blank verse of Shakespeare’s plays, then he would be right on top.

Shakespeare for me is like Mozart, an inexhaustible source of beauty.
Now thou and I are new in amity
Death is a fearful thing
Take o take those lips away
A motley fool
Very like a whale
Time hath my lord a wallet at his back
On such a night as this
The vaulty heaven so high above our heads 
I dreamt there was an emperor Antony
Why man he doth bestride the world
Our revels are now ended
Under the greenwood tree 
Out out brief candle

These are from memory

The list goes on
Shakespeare’s plays are rubbish, but his poetry is ethereal. 
There is also Dante, in Canto V of Inferno....quite hypnotic