Poet Quotes

Author	Birth - Death
A. E. Housman	1859 - 1936
Aaron Hill	1685 - 1750
Adrienne Rich	1929 - 2012
Aeschylus	525 BC - 456 BC
Alden Nowlan	1933 - 1983
Alexander Pope	1688 - 1744
Alexander Smith	1830 - 1867
Alfred Austin	1835 - 1913
Alfred de Vigny	1797 - 1863
Alfred Lord Tennyson	1809 - 1892
Algernon Charles Swinburne	1837 - 1909
Alice Cary	1820 - 1871
Alphonse de Lamartine	1790 - 1869
Amiri Baraka	1934 - 2014
Amy Lowell	1874 - 1925
Andre Breton	1896 - 1966
Angelus Silesius	1624 - 1677
Anne Sexton	1928 - 1974
Archibald MacLeish	1892 - 1982
Aristophanes	448 BC - 380 BC
Arna Bontemps	1902 - 1973
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 -
Carl Sandburg	1878 - 1967
Cesare Pavese	1908 - 1950
Charles Baudelaire	1821 - 1867
Charles Simic	1938 -
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
Du Fu	712 - 770
Dylan Thomas	1914 - 1953
e. e. cummings	1894 - 1962
Edgar Allan Poe	1809 - 1849
Edgar Guest	1881 - 1959
Edith Sitwell	1887 - 1964
Edmund Spenser	1552 - 1599
Edmund Waller	1606 - 1687
Edward Hirsch	1950 -
Edward Young	1683 - 1765
Edwin Markham	1852 - 1940
Eileen Myles	1949 -
Elizabeth Barrett Browning	1806 - 1861
Elizabeth Bibesco	1897 - 1945
Emily Dickinson	1830 - 1886
Emma Lazarus	1849 - 1887
Etel Adnan	1925 -
Euripides	480 BC - 406 BC
Ezra Pound	1885 - 1972
Federico Garcia Lorca	1898 - 1936
Geoffrey Chaucer	1343 - 1400
George Herbert	1593 - 1633
Gil Scott-Heron	1949 - 2011
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
Jacques Prevert	1900 - 1977
James Russell Lowell	1819 - 1891
James Stephens	1882 - 1950
James Weldon Johnson	1871 - 1938
James Whitcomb Riley	1849 - 1916
Jane Taylor	1783 - 1824
Jean de La Fontaine	1621 - 1695
Jean Ingelow	1820 - 1897
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe	1749 - 1832
John Betjeman	1906 - 1984
John Donne	1572 - 1631
John Dryden	1631 - 1700
John Erskine	1879 - 1951
John Gay	1685 - 1732
John Greenleaf Whittier	1807 - 1892
John Keats	1795 - 1821
John Leonard	1965 -
John Masefield	1878 - 1967
John Milton	1608 - 1674
John Petit-Senn	1792 - 1870
Jones Very	1813 - 1880
Jorge Luis Borges	1899 - 1986
Joseph Brodsky	1940 - 1996
Joy Harjo	1951 -
Joyner Lucas	1988 -
Juan Felipe Herrera	1948 -
Judith Wright	1915 - 2000
Juvenal	60 - 130
Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel	1772 - 1829
Katha Pollitt	1949 -
Khalil Gibran	1883 - 1931
Langston Hughes	1902 - 1967
Lascelles Abercrombie	1881 - 1938
Leigh Hunt	1784 - 1859
Letitia Elizabeth Landon	1802 - 1838
Lord Byron	1788 - 1824
Louis Aragon	1897 - 1982
Lucretius	94 BC - 55 BC
Lucy Larcom	1824 - 1893
Mahmoud Darwish	1941 - 2008
Margaret Walker	1915 - 1998
Marianne Moore	1887 - 1972
Mark Strand	1934 - 2014
Mary Oliver	1935 -
Matsuo Basho	1644 - 1694
Matthew Arnold	1822 - 1888
Mattie Stepanek	1990 - 2004
May Sarton	1912 - 1995
Maya Angelou	1928 - 2014
Menander	342 BC - 292 BC
Muhammad Iqbal	1877 - 1938
Nazim Hikmet	1902 - 1963
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 Valery	1871 - 1945
Percy Bysshe Shelley	1792 - 1822
Persius	34 - 62
Petrarch	1304 - 1374
Phaedrus	15 BC - 50 AD
Philip James Bailey	1816 - 1902
Pietro Aretino	1492 - 1556
Pindar	552 BC - 433 BC
Rabindranath Tagore	1861 - 1941
Rainer Maria Rilke	1875 - 1926
Ralph Hodgson	1871 - 1962
Ralph Waldo Emerson	1803 - 1882
Richard Armour	1906 - 1989
Rita Dove	1952 -
Robert Browning	1812 - 1889
Robert Burns	1759 - 1796
Robert Frost	1874 - 1963
Robert Lloyd	1733 - 1764
Robert Lowell	1917 - 1977
Robert Southey	1774 - 1843
Rod McKuen	1933 - 2015
Rumi	1207 - 1273
Rupert Brooke	1887 - 1915
Rupi Kaur	1992 -
Ryunosuke Satoro	-
Saadi	1184 - 1283
Sam Walter Foss	1858 - 1911
Samuel Butler	1835 - 1902
Samuel Daniel	1562 - 1619
Samuel Taylor Coleridge	1772 - 1834
Samuel Ullman	1840 - 1924
Seamus Heaney	1939 - 2013
Shel Silverstein	1930 - 1999
Solomon Ibn Gabirol	1021 - 1058
Sophocles	496 BC - 406 BC
Stanislaw Jerzy Lec	1909 - 1966
Sylvia Plath	1932 - 1963
T. S. Eliot	1888 - 1965
Theodore Roethke	1908 - 1963
Theophile Gautier	1811 - 1872
Thiruvalluvar	-
Thomas Babington Macaulay	1800 - 1859
Thomas Campbell	1777 - 1844
Thomas Gray	1716 - 1771
Thomas Hood	1799 - 1845
Thomas Moore	1779 - 1852
Thomas Tusser	1524 - 1580
Torquato Tasso	1544 - 1595
Tracy K. Smith	1972 -
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 Blake	1757 - 1827
William Butler Yeats	1865 - 1939
William Congreve	1670 - 1729
William Cowper	1731 - 1800
William Cullen Bryant	1794 - 1878
William Ernest Henley	1849 - 1903
William Rose Benet	1886 - 1950
William Wordsworth	1770 - 1850
Yevgeny Yevtushenko	1933 -