Poet Quotes

Author	Birth - Death
A. E. Housman	1859 - 1936
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
Allen Ginsberg	1926 - 1997
Alphonse de Lamartine	1790 - 1869
Amiri Baraka	1934 - 2014
Andre Breton	1896 - 1966
Andrew Motion	1952 -
Angelus Silesius	1624 - 1677
Anton Wildgans	1881 - 1932
Antonio Porchia	1886 - 1968
Archibald MacLeish	1892 - 1982
Aristophanes	448 BC - 380 BC
Audre Lorde	1934 - 1992
August Wilhelm von Schlegel	1767 - 1845
Ausonius	310 - 395
Ben Jonson	1572 - 1637
Ben Okri	1959 -
Bertolt Brecht	1898 - 1956
Billy Collins	1941 -
Caecilius Statius	-
Carl Rakosi	1903 - 2004
Carl Sandburg	1878 - 1967
Cesare Pavese	1908 - 1950
Charles Baudelaire	1821 - 1867
Charles Mackay	1814 - 1889
Christina Rossetti	1830 - 1894
Clarissa Pinkola Estes	1945 -
Claudia Rankine	1963 -
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
Eavan Boland	1944 -
Edgar Allan Poe	1809 - 1849
Edith Sitwell	1887 - 1964
Edward Hirsch	1950 -
Edward Young	1683 - 1765
Edwin Arlington Robinson	1869 - 1935
Edwin Markham	1852 - 1940
Eileen Myles	1949 -
Elizabeth Barrett Browning	1806 - 1861
Emily Dickinson	1830 - 1886
Emma Lazarus	1849 - 1887
Euripides	480 BC - 406 BC
Ezra Pound	1885 - 1972
Federico Garcia Lorca	1898 - 1936
Floyd Skloot	1947 -
Francis Quarles	1592 - 1644
Geoffrey Chaucer	1343 - 1400
George Herbert	1593 - 1633
Gerard Manley Hopkins	1844 - 1889
Gil Scott-Heron	1949 - 2011
Gwendolyn Brooks	1917 - 2000
Hafez	-
Heinrich Heine	1797 - 1856
Henrik Ibsen	1828 - 1906
Henry Van Dyke	1852 - 1933
Henry Vaughan	1622 - 1695
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
Jacques Prevert	1900 - 1977
James Fenton	1949 -
James Russell Lowell	1819 - 1891
James Stephens	1882 - 1950
James Weldon Johnson	1871 - 1938
James Whitcomb Riley	1849 - 1916
Jean de La Fontaine	1621 - 1695
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe	1749 - 1832
John Boyle O'Reilly	1844 - 1890
John Donne	1572 - 1631
John Dryden	1631 - 1700
John Gay	1685 - 1732
John Greenleaf Whittier	1807 - 1892
John Keats	1795 - 1821
John Millington Synge	1871 - 1909
John Milton	1608 - 1674
John O'Donohue	1956 - 2008
Jorge Luis Borges	1899 - 1986
Joseph Brodsky	1940 - 1996
Joy Harjo	1951 -
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
Lawrence Ferlinghetti	1919 -
Lord Byron	1788 - 1824
Louis MacNeice	1907 - 1963
Louise Gluck	1943 -
Lucille Clifton	1936 -
Lucretius	94 BC - 55 BC
Mahmoud Darwish	1941 - 2008
Margaret Walker	1915 - 1998
Mark Strand	1934 - 2014
Mary Karr	1955 -
Mary Oliver	1935 -
Matsuo Basho	1644 - 1694
Matthew Arnold	1822 - 1888
Mattie Stepanek	1990 - 2004
May Sarton	1912 - 1995
Maya Angelou	1928 - 2014
Meghan O'Rourke	1976 -
Menander	342 BC - 292 BC
Muhammad Iqbal	1877 - 1938
Muriel Rukeyser	1913 - 1980
Natasha Trethewey	1966 -
Nazim Hikmet	1901 - 1963
Nelly Sachs	1891 - 1970
Nikki Giovanni	1943 -
Norman MacCaig	1910 - 1996
Novalis	1772 - 1801
Octavio Paz	1914 - 1998
Ogden Nash	1902 - 1971
Oliver Goldsmith	1730 - 1774
Omar Khayyam	1048 - 1131
Ovid	43 BC - 17 AD
Patrick Kavanagh	1904 - 1967
Paul Valery	1871 - 1945
Percy Bysshe Shelley	1792 - 1822
Peter Davison	1928 -
Petrarch	1304 - 1374
Phaedrus	15 BC - 50 AD
Philip James Bailey	1816 - 1902
Philip Schultz	1945 -
Pietro Aretino	1492 - 1556
Rabindranath Tagore	1861 - 1941
Rainer Maria Rilke	1875 - 1926
Ralph Waldo Emerson	1803 - 1882
Rita Dove	1952 -
Robert Blair	1699 - 1746
Robert Browning	1812 - 1889
Robert Burns	1759 - 1796
Robert Creeley	1926 - 2005
Robert Frost	1874 - 1963
Robert Morgan	1944 -
Robert Southey	1774 - 1843
Robert W. Service	1874 - 1958
Ross Gay	1974 -
Rumi	1207 - 1273
Rupi Kaur	1992 -
Ryunosuke Satoro	-
Saadi	1184 - 1283
Samuel Butler	1835 - 1902
Samuel Taylor Coleridge	1772 - 1834
Samuel Ullman	1840 - 1924
Seamus Heaney	1939 - 2013
Shel Silverstein	1930 - 1999
Sophie Hannah	1971 -
Sophocles	496 BC - 406 BC
Stanislaw Jerzy Lec	1909 - 1966
Stephen Vincent Benet	1898 - 1943
Sylvia Plath	1932 - 1963
T. S. Eliot	1888 - 1965
Tahar Ben Jelloun	1944 -
Theodore Roethke	1908 - 1963
Thiruvalluvar	-
Thomas Babington Macaulay	1800 - 1859
Thomas Bailey Aldrich	1836 - 1907
Thomas Campbell	1777 - 1844
Thomas Gray	1716 - 1771
Thomas Middleton	1580 - 1627
Thomas Moore	1779 - 1852
Thomas Tusser	1524 - 1580
Torquato Tasso	1544 - 1595
Tracy K. Smith	1972 -
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 C. Bryant	1794 - 1878
William Congreve	1670 - 1729
William Cowper	1731 - 1800
William Shenstone	1714 - 1763
William Wordsworth	1770 - 1850
Wislawa Szymborska	1923 - 2012
Yunus Emre	1238 - 1320
Yusef Komunyakaa	1947 -