Poet Quotes

Author	Birth - Death
A. E. Housman	1859 - 1936
Adelbert von Chamisso	1781 - 1838
Adrienne Rich	1929 - 2012
Aeschylus	525 BC - 456 BC
Alexander Pope	1688 - 1744
Alexander Smith	1830 - 1867
Alfred Austin	1835 - 1913
Alfred Lord Tennyson	1809 - 1892
Alice Cary	1820 - 1871
Alice Meynell	1847 - 1922
Alice Oswald	1966 -
Allen Ginsberg	1926 - 1997
Alphonse de Lamartine	1790 - 1869
Amiri Baraka	1934 - 2014
Andrew Lang	1844 - 1912
Antonio Porchia	1886 - 1968
Archibald MacLeish	1892 - 1982
Archilochus	680 BC - 645 BC
Aristophanes	448 BC - 380 BC
Arthur Rimbaud	1854 - 1891
Audre Lorde	1934 - 1992
Ausonius	310 - 395
Ben Jonson	1572 - 1637
Ben Okri	1959 -
Bertolt Brecht	1898 - 1956
Billy Collins	1941 -
Bryan Procter	1787 - 1874
C. K. Williams	1936 - 2015
Carl Sandburg	1878 - 1967
Carol Ann Duffy	1955 -
Cesare Pavese	1908 - 1950
Charles Baudelaire	1821 - 1867
Charles Olson	1910 - 1970
Christina Rossetti	1830 - 1894
Clarissa Pinkola Estes	1945 -
Claudia Rankine	1963 -
Countee Cullen	1903 - 1946
Dante Alighieri	1265 - 1321
David Whyte	1955 -
Derek Walcott	1930 -
Diane Ackerman	1948 -
Don Marquis	1878 - 1937
Donald Hall	1928 -
Dylan Thomas	1914 - 1953
e. e. cummings	1894 - 1962
Edgar Allan Poe	1809 - 1849
Edith Sitwell	1887 - 1964
Edmund Waller	1606 - 1687
Edward Hirsch	1950 -
Edward Young	1683 - 1765
Edwin Arnold	1832 - 1904
Elizabeth Barrett Browning	1806 - 1861
Elizabeth Bibesco	1897 - 1945
Emily Dickinson	1830 - 1886
Etel Adnan	1925 -
Euripides	480 BC - 406 BC
Ezra Pound	1885 - 1972
Federico Garcia Lorca	1898 - 1936
Floyd Skloot	1947 -
Geoffrey Chaucer	1343 - 1400
George Herbert	1593 - 1633
Gil Scott-Heron	1949 - 2011
Giorgos Seferis	1900 - 1971
Gwendolyn Brooks	1917 - 2000
Hafez	-
Heinrich Heine	1797 - 1856
Henrik Ibsen	1828 - 1906
Henry Van Dyke	1852 - 1933
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow	1807 - 1882
Herbert Read	1893 - 1968
Hesiod	800 BC - 720 BC
Hilaire Belloc	1870 - 1953
Homer	-
Horace	65 BC - 8 BC
Howard Nemerov	1920 - 1991
James Gates Percival	1795 - 1854
James Merrill	1926 - 1995
James Montgomery	1771 - 1854
James Russell Lowell	1819 - 1891
James Weldon Johnson	1871 - 1938
James Whitcomb Riley	1849 - 1916
Jean de La Fontaine	1621 - 1695
Jean Ingelow	1820 - 1897
Joachim du Bellay	1522 - 1560
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe	1749 - 1832
John Donne	1572 - 1631
John Dryden	1631 - 1700
John Greenleaf Whittier	1807 - 1892
John Keats	1795 - 1821
John Millington Synge	1871 - 1909
John Milton	1608 - 1674
Jorge Luis Borges	1899 - 1986
Joseph Brodsky	1940 - 1996
Joy Harjo	1951 -
Joyce Kilmer	1886 - 1918
Juan Felipe Herrera	1948 -
Juan Ramon Jimenez	1881 - 1958
Jupiter Hammon	1711 - 1806
Juvenal	60 - 130
Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel	1772 - 1829
Khalil Gibran	1883 - 1931
Langston Hughes	1902 - 1967
Lascelles Abercrombie	1881 - 1938
Lawrence Ferlinghetti	1919 -
Leigh Hunt	1784 - 1859
Lemon Andersen	1975 -
Linton Kwesi Johnson	1952 -
Lord Byron	1788 - 1824
Lucretius	94 BC - 55 BC
Lucy Larcom	1824 - 1893
Luis Alberto Urrea	1955 -
Mahmoud Darwish	1941 - 2008
Marcus Valerius Martial	43 - 104
Margaret Walker	1915 - 1998
Marie de France	-
Mary Oliver	1935 -
Matsuo Basho	1644 - 1694
Matthew Arnold	1822 - 1888
Mattie Stepanek	1990 - 2004
May Sarton	1912 - 1995
Maya Angelou	1928 - 2014
Muhammad Iqbal	1877 - 1938
Natasha Trethewey	1966 -
Nikki Giovanni	1943 -
Novalis	1772 - 1801
Octavio Paz	1914 - 1998
Ogden Nash	1902 - 1971
Oliver Goldsmith	1730 - 1774
Omar Khayyam	1048 - 1131
Ovid	43 BC - 17 AD
Paul Engle	1908 - 1991
Paul Muldoon	1951 -
Paul Valery	1871 - 1945
Percy Bysshe Shelley	1792 - 1822
Petrarch	1304 - 1374
Phaedrus	15 BC - 50 AD
Philip James Bailey	1816 - 1902
Philip Larkin	1922 - 1985
Pietro Aretino	1492 - 1556
Pindar	552 BC - 433 BC
Rabindranath Tagore	1861 - 1941
Rainer Maria Rilke	1875 - 1926
Ralph Waldo Emerson	1803 - 1882
Randall Jarrell	1914 - 1965
Rene Ricard	1946 - 2014
Richard Armour	1906 - 1989
Rita Dove	1952 -
Robert Browning	1812 - 1889
Robert Burns	1759 - 1796
Robert Frost	1874 - 1963
Robert Hass	1941 -
Robert Herrick	1591 - 1674
Robert Lloyd	1733 - 1764
Robert Southey	1774 - 1843
Robert W. Service	1874 - 1958
Rumi	1207 - 1273
Rupi Kaur	1992 -
Ryunosuke Satoro	-
Saadi	1184 - 1283
Samuel Butler	1835 - 1902
Samuel Taylor Coleridge	1772 - 1834
Samuel Ullman	1840 - 1924
Sappho	-
Seamus Heaney	1939 - 2013
Shel Silverstein	1930 - 1999
Solomon Ibn Gabirol	1021 - 1058
Sophocles	496 BC - 406 BC
Stanislaw Jerzy Lec	1909 - 1966
Stevie Smith	1902 - 1971
Susan Polis Schutz	1944 -
Sylvia Plath	1932 - 1963
T. S. Eliot	1888 - 1965
Tahar Ben Jelloun	1944 -
Theodore Roethke	1908 - 1963
Theophile Gautier	1811 - 1872
Thiruvalluvar	-
Thom Gunn	1929 - 2004
Thomas Babington Macaulay	1800 - 1859
Thomas Campbell	1777 - 1844
Thomas Moore	1779 - 1852
Thomas Tusser	1524 - 1580
Torquato Tasso	1544 - 1595
Veronica Franco	1546 - 1591
Virgil	70 BC - 19 BC
W. H. Auden	1907 - 1973
W. H. Davies	1871 - 1940
Wallace Stevens	1879 - 1955
Walt Whitman	1819 - 1892
Walter Savage Landor	1775 - 1864
Wendell Berry	1934 -
William Allingham	1821 - 1889
William Blake	1757 - 1827
William Butler Yeats	1865 - 1939
William C. Bryant	1794 - 1878
William Cowper	1731 - 1800
William Drummond	1585 - 1649
William Ernest Henley	1849 - 1903
William Shenstone	1714 - 1763
William Wordsworth	1770 - 1850
Wislawa Szymborska	1923 - 2012