I removed this list from the front page because lists do more bad than good. However, due to a few requests for better explanations as to where these songs are coming from, I'm offering it up as a blog instead.
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Bob, Bruce, Bono, and Woody; John, Johnny, Leonard, and Kris; Steve, Neil, Shane, Nick, and Tom - 'yeah, yeah, thank you and okay, but can you tell us something less obvious?'
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W. H. Auden
Nicholas Berdyaev
John Berger
Jorge Louis Borges
Barry Callaghan
Albert Camus
Dorothy Day
Emily Dickinson
Petru Dumitriu
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
T. S. Eliot
Ortega y Gasset
Blind Willie Johnson
Patrick Kavanagh
Nikos Kazantzakis
Soren Kierkegaard
The King James Version
Patrick Lane
Philip Larkin
Irving Layton
Thomas D'Arcy McGee
Thomas Merton
Czeslaw Milosz
Thelonius Monk
Michel de Montaigne
Morrissey
George Orwell
Arvo Part
Blaise Pascal
The Philokalia
Jackson Pollock
Mark Rothko
Andrei Rublev
Dorothy Soelle
Wislawa Szymborska
Alexander Solzhenitsyn
Archimandrite Sophrony (Sakharov)
John Steinbeck
Mats Sundin
Cecil Taylor
Lev Tolstoy
Tom Thomson
Marina Tsvetaeva
Simone Weil
W. B. Yeats