Qin Guan (; 1049 – c. 1100) was a Chinese writer and poet of the Song Dynasty.
 His courtesy name was Shaoyou (少游).
 Taixu was also his courtesy name.
 His pseudonym was Huaihai Jushi (淮海居士) and Hangou Jushi (邗溝居士).
 He was honored one of the "Four Scholars of Sumen" (蘇門四學士) along with Huang Tingjian, Zhang Lei (張耒) and Chao Buzhi (晁補之).
 The style of his poetry-writing is subtle, graceful, and restrained; and he was famous for love-poem writing.
 His writing style of "ci", was classified into the Wanyue School, most works of which are subtle and concise.
 His talent was greatly appreciated by Su Shi, one of the greatest poet in Song Dynasty.
 His most famous verse is "If the two hearts are united forever, why do the two persons need to stay together—day after day, night after night?"
 (兩情若是久長時，又豈在朝朝暮暮, see the full poem and its translation in The Weaver Girl and the Cowherd).
Nora Nadjarian is an Armenian–Cypriot poet and short story writer.
 She writes in English and Armenian, as well as Greek.
 Her writing mostly centres on the island of Cyprus, especially the partition of Cyprus into North and South, though there are numerous works of universal themes.
 A frequent participant in international competitions, poetry festivals, literary conferences and other projects, her poems and short stories have also appeared in numerous anthologies around the world including Cyprus, United Kingdom, United States of America, Germany, India, New Zealand and Israel.
 The writer has said that her work is inspired by Sylvia Plath and Yehuda Amichai.
 Paul Celan, Pablo Neruda and Sharon Olds are a few other idols that she has mentioned.
Yehuda Amichai (Hebrew: יהודה עמיחי‎ ‎ ; ‎ 3 May 1924 – 22 September 2000) was an Israeli poet.
 Amichai is considered by many, both in Israel and internationally, as Israel's greatest modern poet.
 He was also one of the first to write in colloquial Hebrew.
Richard Ford (born February 16, 1944) is an American novelist and short story writer.
 His best-known works are the novel "The Sportswriter" and its sequels, "Independence Day", "The Lay of the Land" and "Let Me Be Frank With You", and the short story collection "Rock Springs", which contains several widely anthologized stories.
Muriel Rukeyser (December 15, 1913 – February 12, 1980) was an American poet and political activist, best known for her poems about equality, feminism, social justice, and Judaism.
 Kenneth Rexroth said that she was the greatest poet of her "exact generation".
Struga Poetry Evenings (SPE) (Macedonian: Струшки вечери на поезијата , СВП; tr.
 "Struški večeri na poezijata", "SVP") is an international poetry festival held annually in Struga, Macedonia.
 During the several decades of its existence, the Festival has awarded its most prestigious award, the Golden Wreath, to some of the most notable international poets, including: Mahmoud Darwish, Sachchidananda Hirananda Vatsyayan Agyey, W. H. Auden, Joseph Brodsky, Allen Ginsberg, Bulat Okudzhava, Pablo Neruda, Eugenio Montale, Léopold Sédar Senghor, Artur Lundkvist, Hans Magnus Enzensberger, Nichita Stănescu, Ted Hughes, Ko Un, Adunis, Makoto Ooka, Miroslav Krleža, Yehuda Amichai, Seamus Heaney, Tomas Gösta Tranströmer, Bei Dao, and domestic authors such as Blaže Koneski, Mateja Matevski.
Laxmi Prasad Devkota (Nepali: , 12 November 1909 – 14 September 1959) was a Nepali poet, :playwright, and novelist.
 Honoured with the title of "Maha Kavi" (literal translation: 'Great Poet') in Nepali literature, Devkota is by and large regarded as the greatest poet in the history of Nepal and Nepali language.
 Some of his popular works include "Muna Madan", "Kunjini", and "Sakuntala."
Adam Bernard Mickiewicz ( ; 24 December 179826 November 1855) was a Polish poet, dramatist, essayist, publicist, translator, professor of Slavic literature, and political activist.
 He is regarded as national poet in Poland, Lithuania and Belarus.
 A principal figure in Polish Romanticism, he is counted as one of Poland's "Three Bards" (""Trzej Wieszcze"") and is widely regarded as Poland's greatest poet.
 He is also considered one of the greatest Slavic and European poets and has been dubbed a "Slavic bard".
 A leading Romantic dramatist, he has been compared in Poland and Europe to Byron and Goethe.
Golden Age of Russian Poetry is the name traditionally applied by Russian philologists to the first half of the 19th century.
 It is also called the Age of Pushkin, after its most significant poet (in Nabokov's words, the greatest poet this world was blessed with since the time of Shakespeare).
 Mikhail Lermontov and Fyodor Tyutchev are generally regarded as two most important Romantic poets after Pushkin.
 Vasily Zhukovsky and Konstantin Batyushkov are the best regarded of his precursors.
 Pushkin himself, however, considered Evgeny Baratynsky to be the finest poet of his day.
Vicente Tomás Medina (] ; 27 October 1886 – 17 August 1937) was a Spanish poet, dramatist and editor, and a symbol of local identity for the Murcia region of southeastern Spain.
 His best-known work, "Aires murcianos" ("Murcian airs"), was taken up as a reference point for local cultural and social criticism, and was widely praised by contemporaries.
 In his time Medina was considered in Spain to be one of the country's most important writers, referred to as "the great contemporary Spanish poet" and "the Spanish poet of poets".
 His fame has since declined, and he is now little read; but he remains an important figure as the greatest poet to have written in the Murcian dialect.

Question: Who is the greatest poet, Yehuda Amichai or Richard Ford?
Answer: Yehuda Amichai