Poet Quotes at BrainyQuote

Author	Birth - Death
Lascelles Abercrombie	1881 - 1938
Lucius Accius	-
Diane Ackerman	1948 -
Aeschylus	525 BC - 456 BC
Agathon	448 BC - 400 BC
Mark Akenside	1721 - 1770
Anna Akhmatova	1889 - 1966
Alcaeus	-
Thomas Bailey Aldrich	1836 - 1907
Vicente Aleixandre	1898 - 1984
Dante Alighieri	1265 - 1321
William Allingham	1821 - 1889
Al Alvarez	1929 -
A. R. Ammons	-
Anacreon	-
Carlos Drummond de Andrade	1902 - 1987
Maya Angelou	1928 -
Christopher Anstey	1724 - 1805
David Antin	1932 -
Louis Aragon	1897 - 1982
Archilochus	680 BC - 645 BC
Pietro Aretino	1492 - 1556
Ludovico Ariosto	1474 - 1533
Aristophanes	448 BC - 380 BC
Simon Armitage	1963 -
Richard Armour	1906 - 1989
Ernst Moritz Arndt	1769 - 1860
Matthew Arnold	1822 - 1888
Edwin Arnold	1832 - 1904
John Ashbery	1927 -
W. H. Auden	1907 - 1973
Joseph Auslander	1897 - 1965
Ausonius	310 - 395
Alfred Austin	1835 - 1913
Philip James Bailey	1816 - 1902
Joanna Baillie	1762 - 1851
Amiri Baraka	1934 -
Anna Letitia Barbauld	1743 - 1825
John Barbour	1316 - 1395
Joel Barlow	1754 - 1812
Barnabe Barnes	1569 - 1609
Richard Barnfield	1574 - 1627
Bernard Barton	1784 - 1849
John Barton	-
Matsuo Basho	1644 - 1694
Charles Baudelaire	1821 - 1867
Thomas Lovell Beddoes	1803 - 1849
John Beecher	1904 - 1978
Joachim du Bellay	1522 - 1560
Hilaire Belloc	1870 - 1953
Stephen Vincent Benet	1898 - 1943
William Rose Benet	1886 - 1950
Isaac de Benserade	1613 - 1691
Wendell Berry	1934 -
John Berryman	1914 - 1972
John Betjeman	1906 - 1984
Elizabeth Bibesco	1897 - 1945
Elizabeth Bishop	1911 - 1979
Richard Blackmore	1654 - 1729
William Blake	1757 - 1827
Robert Bloomfield	1766 - 1823
Edmund Blunden	1896 - 1974
Robert Bly	1926 -
Maxwell Bodenheim	1891 - 1954
Louise Bogan	1897 - 1970
Nicolas Boileau	1636 - 1711
Arrigo Boito	1842 - 1918
Arna Bontemps	1902 - 1973
Jorge Luis Borges	1899 - 1986
Karin Boye	1900 - 1941
Anne Bradstreet	1612 - 1672
Bertolt Brecht	1898 - 1956
Andre Breton	1896 - 1966
Nicholas Breton	1545 - 1626
Robert Bridges	1844 - 1930
Joseph Brodsky	1940 - 1996
Alexander Brome	1620 - 1666
Rupert Brooke	1887 - 1915
Gwendolyn Brooks	1917 - 2000
William Broome	1689 - 1745
Pam Brown	1948 -
Thomas Edward Brown	1830 - 1897
Elizabeth Barrett Browning	1806 - 1861
Robert Browning	1812 - 1889
William C. Bryant	1794 - 1878
Robert Williams Buchanan	1841 - 1901
Basil Bunting	1900 - 1985
Robert Burns	1759 - 1796
Samuel Butler	1835 - 1902
Lord Byron	1788 - 1824
George Byron	1788 - 1824
Callimachus	305 BC - 240 BC
Charles Stuart Calverley	1831 - 1884
C. S. Calverley	1831 - 1884
Richard Owen Cambridge	1717 - 1802
Thomas Campbell	1777 - 1844
Bliss Carman	1861 - 1929
Elizabeth Carter	1717 - 1806
Sydney Carter	1915 - 2004
Phoebe Cary	1824 - 1871
Alice Cary	1820 - 1871
Gaius Valerius Catullus	84 BC - 54 BC
Paul Celan	1920 - 1970
Luis Cernuda	1902 - 1963
Aime Cesaire	1913 - 2008
Adelbert von Chamisso	1781 - 1838
George Chapman	1559 - 1634
John Jay Chapman	1862 - 1933
Arthur Chapman	1873 - 1935
Rene Char	1907 - 1988
Thomas Chatterton	1752 - 1770
Geoffrey Chaucer	1343 - 1400
Bradley Chicho	1895 -
Chilon	-
Charles Churchill	1731 - 1764
Amy Clampitt	1920 - 1994
John Clare	1793 - 1864
John Cleveland	1613 - 1658
Lucille Clifton	1936 -
Arthur Hugh Clough	1819 - 1861
Samuel Taylor Coleridge	1772 - 1834
William Collins	1721 - 1759
William Congreve	1670 - 1729
Henry Constable	1562 - 1613
Eliza Cook	1818 - 1889
Wendy Cope	1945 -
Frances Cornford	1886 - 1960
F. M. Cornford	1874 - 1943
Barry Cornwall	1787 - 1874
Gregory Corso	1930 - 2001
William Johnson Cory	1823 - 1892
Charles Cotton	1630 - 1687
Abraham Cowley	1618 - 1667
William Cowper	1731 - 1800
George Crabbe	1754 - 1832
Hart Crane	1899 - 1932
Robert Creeley	1926 - 2005
Countee Cullen	1903 - 1946
Allan Cunningham	1784 - 1842
Gabriele D'Annunzio	1863 - 1938
Simon Dach	1605 - 1659
Samuel Daniel	1562 - 1619
Ruben Dario	1867 - 1916
William Davenant	1606 - 1668
W. H. Davies	1871 - 1940
William F. DeVault	1955 -
Jacques Delille	1738 - 1813
Toi Derricotte	1941 -
Eustache Deschamps	1346 - 1406
Emily Dickinson	1830 - 1886
Jose de Diego	1866 - 1918
Henry Austin Dobson	1840 - 1921
John Donne	1572 - 1631
Hilda Doolittle	1886 - 1961
Mark Van Doren	1894 - 1972
Lord Alfred Douglas	1870 - 1945
Alfred Douglas	1870 - 1945
Rita Dove	1952 -
Ernest Dowson	1867 - 1900
Michael Drayton	1563 - 1631
John Drinkwater	1882 - 1937
John Dryden	1631 - 1700
Louis Dudek	1918 - 2001
Carol Ann Duffy	1955 -
Paul Laurence Dunbar	1872 - 1906
William Dunbar	1460 - 1520
Helen Dunmore	1952 -
Stephen Dunn	1939 -
Douglas Dunn	1942 -
Edward Dyer	1543 - 1607
Henry Van Dyke	1852 - 1933
Richard Eberhart	1904 - 2005
T. S. Eliot	1888 - 1965
Paul Eluard	1895 - 1952
Ralph Waldo Emerson	1803 - 1882
William Empson	1906 - 1984
Yunus Emre	1238 - 1320
Paul Engle	1908 - 1991
Quintus Ennius	239 BC - 169 BC
John Erskine	1879 - 1951
Clarissa Pinkola Estes	1945 -
Euripides	480 BC - 406 BC
Mari Evans	1923 -
William Falconer	1732 - 1769
James Fenton	1949 -
Ferdowsi	935 - 1020
Lawrence Ferlinghetti	1919 -
Eugene Field	1850 - 1895
Ian Hamilton Finlay	1925 -
Edward Fitzgerald	1809 - 1883
Penelope Fitzgerald	1916 - 2000
Aulus Persius Flaccus	34 - 62
Jean de La Fontaine	1621 - 1695
Sam Walter Foss	1858 - 1911
Marie de France	-
Veronica Franco	1546 - 1591
Robert Frost	1874 - 1963
Du Fu	712 - 770
Solomon Ibn Gabirol	1021 - 1058
Serge Gainsbourg	1928 - 1991
Antonio Gala	-
Richard Le Gallienne	1866 - 1947
Sunil Gangopadhyay	1934 - 2012
Theophile Gautier	1811 - 1872
John Gay	1685 - 1732
Christian Furchtegott Gellert	1715 - 1769
Khalil Gibran	1883 - 1931
Allen Ginsberg	1926 - 1997
Nikki Giovanni	1943 -
Diane Glancy	1941 -
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe	1749 - 1832
Oliver Goldsmith	1730 - 1774
Herman Gorter	1864 - 1927
Juan Goytisolo	1931 -
James Grainger	1721 - 1766
Anne Grant	1755 - 1838
Thomas Gray	1716 - 1771
Matthew Green	1696 - 1737
Horace Gregory	1898 - 1982
Julian Grenfell	1888 - 1915
Franz Grillparzer	1791 - 1872
Edgar Guest	1881 - 1959
Nubar Gulbenkian	1896 - 1972
Thom Gunn	1929 - 2004
Marilyn Hacker	1942 -
Radclyffe Hall	1880 - 1943
Jupiter Hammon	1711 - 1806
Robert Hass	1941 -
B. R. Hayden	1913 - 1980
Seamus Heaney	1939 -
Anthony Hecht	1923 - 2004
Heinrich Heine	1797 - 1856
Felicia Hemans	1793 - 1835
William Ernest Henley	1849 - 1903
George Herbert	1593 - 1633
Gil Scott-Heron	1949 - 2011
Robert Herrick	1591 - 1674
Georg Herwegh	1817 - 1875
Hesiod	800 BC - 720 BC
Nazim Hikmet	1901 - 1963
Aaron Hill	1685 - 1750
Ralph Hodgson	1871 - 1962
James Hogg	1770 - 1835
Homer	-
Thomas Hood	1799 - 1845
Gerard Manley Hopkins	1844 - 1889
Horace	65 BC - 8 BC
Richard Henry Horne	1803 - 1884
A. E. Housman	1859 - 1936
Alfred Edward Housman	1859 - 1936
Libby Houston	1941 -
Richard Howard	1929 -
Langston Hughes	1902 - 1967
Ted Hughes	1930 - 1998
Leigh Hunt	1784 - 1859
Henrik Ibsen	1828 - 1906
Jean Ingelow	1820 - 1897
Muhammad Iqbal	1877 - 1938
Silius Italicus	25 - 101
Max Jacob	1876 - 1944
Randall Jarrell	1914 - 1965
Robinson Jeffers	1887 - 1962
Tahar Ben Jelloun	1944 -
Elizabeth Jennings	1926 - 2001
Juan Ramon Jimenez	1881 - 1958
James Weldon Johnson	1871 - 1938
Georgia Douglas Johnson	1880 - 1966
Ben Jonson	1572 - 1637
Donald Justice	1925 - 2004
Juvenal	60 - 130
Patrick Kavanagh	1904 - 1967
John Keats	1795 - 1821
Omar Khayyam	1048 - 1131
Joyce Kilmer	1886 - 1918
Galway Kinnell	1927 -
Kenneth Koch	1925 - 2002
Stanley Kunitz	1905 - 2006
Jules Laforgue	1860 - 1887
Alphonse de Lamartine	1790 - 1869
Letitia Elizabeth Landon	1802 - 1838
Walter Savage Landor	1775 - 1864
Andrew Lang	1844 - 1912
John Langhorne	1735 - 1779
Sidney Lanier	1842 - 1881
Lucy Larcom	1824 - 1893
Philip Larkin	1922 - 1985
James Laughlin	1914 - 1997
Comte de Lautreamont	1846 - 1870
Irving Layton	1912 - 2006
Emma Lazarus	1849 - 1887
Stanislaw Lec	1909 - 1966
Laurie Lee	1914 - 1997
David Lehman	1948 -
Eino Leino	1878 - 1926
John Leonard	1965 -
Giacomo Leopardi	1798 - 1837
Mikhail Lermontov	1814 - 1841
Philip Levine	1928 -
Amy Levy	1861 - 1889
C. Day Lewis	1904 - 1972
Saunders Lewis	1893 - 1985
Vachel Lindsay	1879 - 1931
Robert Lloyd	1733 - 1764
Frederick Locker-Lampson	1821 - 1895
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow	1807 - 1882
Federico Garcia Lorca	1898 - 1936
Audre Lorde	1934 - 1992
Richard Lovelace	1908 - 1908
Amy Lowell	1874 - 1925
James Russell Lowell	1819 - 1891
Robert Lowell	1917 - 1977
Malcolm Lowry	1909 - 1957
Lucan	39 - 65
Lucretius	94 BC - 55 BC
Norman MacCaig	1910 - 1996
Hugh MacDiarmid	1892 - 1978
Archibald MacLeish	1892 - 1982
Louis MacNeice	1907 - 1963
Thomas Macaulay	1800 - 1859
Thomas Babington Macaulay	1800 - 1859
Antonio Machado	1875 - 1939
Charles Mackay	1814 - 1889
Francois de Malherbe	1555 - 1628
Stephane Mallarme	1842 - 1898
Walter de La Mare	1873 - 1956
Edwin Markham	1852 - 1940
Don Marquis	1878 - 1937
John Marston	1576 - 1634
Marcus Valerius Martial	43 - 104
Theodore Martin	1816 - 1909
John Masefield	1878 - 1967
Gerald Massey	1828 - 1907
Philip Massinger	1908 - 1908
Edgar Lee Masters	1868 - 1950
Vladimir Mayakovsky	1893 - 1930
John McCrae	1872 - 1918
David McFadden	1940 -
Bryant H. McGill	1969 -
Roger McGough	1937 -
Rod McKuen	1933 -
Archibald McLeish	1892 - 1982
Menander	342 BC - 292 BC
James Merrill	1926 - 1995
W. S. Merwin	1927 -
Howard Metzenbaum	1917 - 2008
Alice Meynell	1847 - 1922
Thomas Middleton	1580 - 1627
Alice Duer Miller	1874 - 1942
Czeslaw Milosz	1911 - 2004
John Milton	1608 - 1674
Gabriela Mistral	1889 - 1957
Adrian Mitchell	1932 - 2008
Kenji Miyazawa	1896 - 1933
Eugenio Montale	1896 - 1981
James Montgomery	1771 - 1854
Marianne Moore	1887 - 1972
Thomas Moore	1779 - 1852
Robert Morgan	1944 -
Christian Morgenstern	1871 - 1914
Andrew Motion	1952 -
Paul Muldoon	1951 -
George Murray	-
Ogden Nash	1902 - 1971
Howard Nemerov	1920 - 1991
Adela Florence Nicolson	1865 - 1904
Novalis	1772 - 1801
Alden Nowlan	1933 - 1983
Alfred Noyes	1880 - 1958
Frank O'Hara	1926 - 1966
Meghan O'Rourke	1976 -
Arthur O'Shaughnessy	1844 - 1881
Ben Okri	1959 -
Sharon Olds	1942 -
Mary Oliver	1935 -
Charles Olson	1910 - 1970
George Oppen	1908 - 1984
Thomas Overbury	1581 - 1613
Ovid	43 BC - 17 AD
Coventry Patmore	1823 - 1896
Tom Paulin	1949 -
Cesare Pavese	1908 - 1950
Octavio Paz	1914 - 1998
James Gates Percival	1795 - 1854
John Petit-Senn	1792 - 1870
Petrarch	1304 - 1374
Phaedrus	15 BC - 50 AD
Ambrose Philips	1675 - 1749
John Philips	1676 - 1709
Stephen Phillips	1864 - 1915
Pindar	552 BC - 433 BC
Sylvia Plath	1932 - 1963
Li Po	701 - 762
Edgar Allan Poe	1809 - 1849
Alexander Pope	1688 - 1744
Antonio Porchia	1886 - 1968
Ezra Pound	1885 - 1972
Jack Prelutsky	1940 -
Jacques Prevert	1900 - 1977
Matthew Prior	1664 - 1721
Adelaide Anne Procter	1825 - 1864
Sextus Propertius	50 BC - 15 BC
Al Purdy	1918 - 2000
Francis Quarles	1592 - 1644
Raymond Queneau	1903 - 1976
Kathleen Raine	1908 - 2003
Carl Rakosi	1903 - 2004
Ron Rash	1953 -
Herbert Read	1893 - 1968
Ishmael Reed	1938 -
Lizette Woodworth Reese	1856 - 1935
Kenneth Rexroth	1905 - 1982
Charles Reznikoff	1894 - 1976
Adrienne Rich	1929 - 2012
Jean Richepin	1849 - 1926
Laura Riding	1901 - 1991
James Whitcomb Riley	1849 - 1916
Rainer Maria Rilke	1875 - 1926
Arthur Rimbaud	1854 - 1891
Judith Rodriguez	1936 -
Theodore Roethke	1908 - 1963
Samuel Rogers	1763 - 1855
Isaac Rosenberg	1890 - 1918
Christina Rossetti	1830 - 1894
Dante Gabriel Rossetti	1828 - 1882
Christina G. Rossetti	1830 - 1894
Edmond Rostand	1868 - 1918
Juan Ruiz	1283 - 1350
Muriel Rukeyser	1913 - 1980
Rumi	1207 - 1273
Sa'Di	-
Saadi	1184 - 1283
Nelly Sachs	1891 - 1970
Margaret Sackville	1881 - 1963
Carl Sandburg	1878 - 1967
George Sandys	1578 - 1644
Margaret Elizabeth Sangster	1838 - 1912
Jacopo Sannazaro	1458 - 1530
May Sarton	1912 - 1995
Siegfried Sassoon	1886 - 1967
Ryunosuke Satoro	-
Richard Savage	1697 - 1743
Paul Scarron	1610 - 1660
August Wilhelm von Schlegel	1767 - 1845
Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel	1772 - 1829
James Schuyler	1923 - 1991
Delmore Schwartz	1913 - 1966
Frank Scott	1899 - 1985
Giorgos Seferis	1900 - 1971
Jaroslav Seifert	1901 - 1986
Robert W. Service	1874 - 1958
Anne Sexton	1928 - 1974
Karl Shapiro	1913 - 2000
John Sheffield	1648 - 1721
Percy Bysshe Shelley	1792 - 1822
William Shenstone	1714 - 1763
Lydia Sigourney	1791 - 1865
Angelus Silesius	1624 - 1677
Edward Rowland Sill	1841 - 1887
Shel Silverstein	1930 - 1999
Charles Simic	1938 -
Edith Sitwell	1887 - 1964
John Skelton	1460 - 1529
Christopher Smart	1722 - 1771
Alexander Smith	1830 - 1867
Horace Smith	1779 - 1849
Stevie Smith	1902 - 1971
Charlotte Smith	1749 - 1806
Tracy K. Smith	1972 -
Gary Snyder	1930 -
Ikkyu Sojun	1394 - 1481
William Somerville	1675 - 1742
Sophocles	496 BC - 406 BC
Robert Southey	1774 - 1843
Stephen Spender	1909 - 1995
Edmund Spenser	1552 - 1599
Carl Spitteler	1845 - 1924
William Stafford	1914 - 1993
Caecilius Statius	-
Statius	45 - 96
Edmund Clarence Stedman	1833 - 1908
Mattie Stepanek	1990 - 2004
James Stephens	1882 - 1950
Wallace Stevens	1879 - 1955
Anne Stevenson	-
Mark Strand	1934 -
Janet Erskine Stuart	-
Algernon Charles Swinburne	1837 - 1909
Joshua Sylvester	1563 - 1618
Arthur Symons	1865 - 1945
John Millington Synge	1871 - 1909
Wislawa Szymborska	1923 - 2012
Rabindranath Tagore	1861 - 1941
Taliesin	534 - 599
Torquato Tasso	1544 - 1595
Allen Tate	1899 - 1979
Nahum Tate	1652 - 1715
Jane Taylor	1783 - 1824
Alfred Lord Tennyson	1809 - 1892
Frederick Tennyson	1807 - 1898
Theocritus	-
Dylan Thomas	1914 - 1953
Francis Thompson	1859 - 1907
Ludwig Tieck	1773 - 1853
Henry Timrod	1829 - 1867
Georg Trakl	1887 - 1914
Herbert Trench	1865 - 1923
Marina Tsvetaeva	1892 - 1941
Charles Tennyson Turner	1808 - 1879
Thomas Tusser	1524 - 1580
Samuel Ullman	1840 - 1924
Paul Valery	1871 - 1945
Marceline Desbordes-Valmore	1786 - 1859
Henry Vaughan	1622 - 1695
Aubrey de Vere	1788 - 1846
Paul Verlaine	1844 - 1896
Jones Very	1813 - 1880
Alfred de Vigny	1797 - 1863
Francois Villon	1431 - 1484
Virgil	70 BC - 19 BC
Renee Vivien	1877 - 1909
Vincent Voiture	1597 - 1648
Leo Vroman	1915 -
Diane Wakoski	1937 -
Margaret Walker	1915 - 1998
Edmund Waller	1606 - 1687
John Hall Wheelock	1886 - 1978
William Whitehead	1715 - 1785
Walt Whitman	1819 - 1892
John Greenleaf Whittier	1807 - 1892
Anna Wickham	1884 - 1947
Christoph Martin Wieland	1733 - 1813
Richard Wilbur	1921 -
Carlos Wilcox	1794 - 1827
Sarah Williams	1837 - 1868
Charles Wolfe	1791 - 1823
William Wordsworth	1770 - 1850
Judith Wright	1915 - 2000
Elinor Wylie	1885 - 1928
William Butler Yeats	1865 - 1939
Yevgeny Yevtushenko	1933 -
Edward Young	1683 - 1765
Xu Zhimo	1893 - 1931
e. e. cummings	1894 - 1962