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Rodin's famous statue The Thinker was originally called The Poet.

It began as part of a huge doorway sculpture called The Gates of Hell, commissioned in 1880. Some critics think it was meant to show the poet Dante, pondering his great poem.

Source: Wikipedia: The Thinker

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