Poet Quotes

Alice Duer Miller William Cowper John Leonard Andre Breton Carl Sandburg Alexander Smith Howard Nemerov Alfred Austin Thomas Moore Ezra Pound May Sarton Heinrich Heine Caecilius Statius Alphonse de Lamartine Lord Byron Henrik Ibsen David McFadden Clarissa Pinkola Estes B. R. Hayden Leigh Hunt W. H. Auden Ausonius Henry Van Dyke Bryant H. McGill Anna Akhmatova Alfred Lord Tennyson Jorge Luis Borges Aeschylus Elizabeth Barrett Browning Margaret Walker Anne Sexton William Shenstone Richard Armour Robert Southey Hesiod Eliza Cook Rod McKuen Rene Char Henry Austin Dobson Paul Engle Delmore Schwartz Hilaire Belloc Charles Simic Yevgeny Yevtushenko Marianne Moore Wallace Stevens A. E. Housman Thomas Gray Ogden Nash Elinor Wylie Wendell Berry e. e. cummings Percy Bysshe Shelley Sidney Lanier Gerard Manley Hopkins William C. Bryant Antonio Porchia Ikkyu Sojun Joyce Kilmer Langston Hughes James Whitcomb Riley Thomas Tusser Diane Ackerman George Herbert Edgar Allan Poe Samuel Taylor Coleridge William Dunbar John Gay John Dryden Muhammed Iqbal Rainer Maria Rilke Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Aristophanes Yunus Emre John Keats Virgil Rita Dove Rupert Brooke Jean de La Fontaine Amy Lowell Khalil Gibran Alfred de Vigny Paul Valery William Wordsworth Alexander Pope Johann Wolfgang von Goethe T. S. Eliot Gwendolyn Brooks Walt Whitman Novalis Octavio Paz Samuel Butler Ovid Maya Angelou Homer John Donne Barry Cornwall Juvenal James Russell Lowell William Butler Yeats Sophocles Emily Dickinson John Greenleaf Whittier Samuel Ullman William Congreve Horace Charles Baudelaire Thomas Overbury Ralph Waldo Emerson Don Marquis Dante Alighieri Robert Frost Rabindranath Tagore Bertolt Brecht Euripides Stanislaw Lec Robert Browning Andrew Motion Christian Morgenstern James Montgomery Eugenio Montale Paul Muldoon George Murray Adela Florence Nicolson Alden Nowlan Alfred Noyes Frank O'Hara Kenji Miyazawa Adrian Mitchell Gabriela Mistral Roger McGough Archibald McLeish Menander James Merrill W. S. Merwin Howard Metzenbaum Alice Meynell Thomas Middleton Czeslaw Milosz John Milton Arthur O'Shaughnessy Ben Okri Sharon Olds Stephen Phillips Pindar Sylvia Plath Titus Maccius Plautus Li Po John Pomfret Jack Prelutsky Jacques Prevert Matthew Prior Adelaide Anne Procter John Philips Ambrose Philips Mary Oliver Charles Olson George Oppen Coventry Patmore Tom Paulin Cesare Pavese James Gates Percival John Petit-Senn Petrarch Phaedrus Sextus Propertius John McCrae Stanley Kunitz Eino Leino Giacomo Leopardi Mikhail Lermontov Philip Levine Amy Levy C. Day Lewis Saunders Lewis Vachel Lindsay Robert Lloyd Frederick Locker-Lampson David Lehman Laurie Lee Jules Laforgue Walter Savage Landor Andrew Lang John Langhorne Lucy Larcom Philip Larkin James Laughlin Comte de Lautreamont Irving Layton Emma Lazarus Federico Garcia Lorca Audre Lorde Richard Lovelace Stephane Mallarme Walter de La Mare Edwin Markham John Marston Marcus Valerius Martial Theodore Martin John Masefield Gerald Massey Philip Massinger Edgar Lee Masters Francois de Malherbe Louis MacNeice Robert Lowell Malcolm Lowry Lucan Lucretius Thomas Macaulay Norman MacCaig Hugh MacDiarmid Antonio Machado Charles Mackay Archibald MacLeish Vladimir Mayakovsky Al Purdy William Somerville J. M. Synge John Synge Wislawa Szymborska Taliesin Torquato Tasso Allen Tate Jane Taylor Frederick Tennyson Theocritus Dylan Thomas Arthur Symons Joshua Sylvester Stephen Spender Edmund Spenser Carl Spitteler William Stafford Mattie Stepanek James Stephens Anne Stevenson Mark Strand Janet Erskine Stuart Algernon Charles Swinburne Francis Thompson Ludwig Tieck Henry Timrod Edmund Waller John Hall Wheelock William Whitehead Anna Wickham Christoph Martin Wieland Richard Wilbur Carlos Wilcox Charles Wolfe Judith Wright Edward Young Diane Wakoski Vincent Voiture Georg Trakl Herbert Trench Marina Tsvetaeva Charles Tennyson Turner Henry Vaughan Aubrey de Vere Paul Verlaine Jones Very Francois Villon Renee Vivien Xu Zhimo Gary Snyder Francis Quarles Isaac Rosenberg Christina G. Rossetti Christina Rossetti Edmond Rostand Juan Ruiz Muriel Rukeyser Rumi Sa'Di Saadi Nelly Sachs Samuel Rogers Theodore Roethke Raymond Queneau Carl Rakosi Herbert Read Ishmael Reed Kenneth Rexroth Charles Reznikoff Adrienne Rich Jean Richepin Laura Riding Arthur Rimbaud Margaret Sackville Carl Sandberg George Sandys Karl Shapiro John Sheffield Angelus Silesius Edward Rowland Sill Shel Silverstein Edith Sitwell John Skelton Christopher Smart Charlotte Smith Horace Smith Robert W. Service Robert Service Jacopo Sannazaro Siegfried Sassoon Ryunosuke Satoro Richard Savage Paul Scarron August Wilhelm von Schlegel James Schuyler Frank Scott Giorgos Seferis Jaroslav Seifert Stevie Smith Kenneth Koch Nicolas Boileau Robert Burns George Byron Callimachus C. S. Calverley Charles Stuart Calverley Richard Owen Cambridge Thomas Campbell Bliss Carman Elizabeth Carter Sydney Carter Basil Bunting Robert Williams Buchanan Arrigo Boito Arna Bontemps Karin Boye Anne Bradstreet Nicholas Breton Robert Bridges Joseph Brodsky Alexander Brome William Broome Thomas Edward Brown Alice Cary Phoebe Cary Gaius Valerius Catullus John Cleveland Lucille Clifton Arthur Hugh Clough William Collins Henry Constable Wendy Cope Frances Cornford Gregory Corso William Johnson Cory Charles Cotton John Clare Amy Clampitt Paul Celan Luis Cernuda Aime Cesaire Adelbert von Chamisso Arthur Chapman George Chapman John Jay Chapman Geoffrey Chaucer Chilon Charles Churchill Abraham Cowley Louise Bogan Lascelles Abercrombie David Antin Louis Aragon Archilochus Pietro Aretino Ludovico Ariosto Ernst Moritz Arndt Edwin Arnold Matthew Arnold John Ashbery Joseph Auslander Christopher Anstey Carlos Drummond de Andrade Lucius Accius Agathon Mark Akenside Alcaeus Thomas Bailey Aldrich Vicente Aleixandre William Allingham Al Alvarez A. R. Ammons Anacreon Thomas Babington Philip James Bailey Joanna Baillie Stephen Vincent Benet Isaac de Benserade John Berryman John Betjeman Elizabeth Bibesco Elizabeth Bishop Richard Blackmore Robert Bloomfield Edmund Blunden Robert Bly Joachim du Bellay John Beecher Amiri Baraka Anna Letitia Barbauld John Barbour Joel Barlow Barnabe Barnes Richard Barnfield Bernard Barton John Barton Matsuo Basho Thomas Lovell Beddoes Maxwell Bodenheim George Crabbe Theophile Gautier Edgar Guest Thom Gunn Marilyn Hacker Jupiter Hammon Robert Hass Seamus Heaney Anthony Hecht Felicia Hemans William Ernest Henley Georg Herwegh Franz Grillparzer Julian Grenfell Christian Furchtegott Gellert Allen Ginsberg Nikki Giovanni Oliver Goldsmith Herman Gorter Juan Goytisolo James Grainger Anne Grant Matthew Green Horace Gregory Nazim Hikmet Aaron Hill Ralph Hodgson Tahar Ben Jelloun Elizabeth Jennings Juan Ramon Jimenez Georgia Douglas Johnson James Weldon Johnson Ben Jonson Donald Justice Franz Kafka Patrick Kavanagh Omar Khayyam Robinson Jeffers Randall Jarrell James Hogg Thomas Hood Richard Henry Horne Alfred Edward Housman Libby Houston Ted Hughes Jean Ingelow Muhammad Iqbal Silius Italicus Max Jacob Galway Kinnell Richard Le Gallienne Hart Crane Jose de Diego Mark Van Doren Alfred Douglas Lord Alfred Douglas Ernest Dowson Michael Drayton John Drinkwater Louis Dudek Carol Ann Duffy Paul Laurence Dunbar William F. DeVault Eustache Deschamps Robert Creeley Countee Cullen Allan Cunningham Gabriele D'Annunzio Simon Dach Samuel Daniel Ruben Dario William Davenant W. H. Davies Jacques Delille Helen Dunmore Douglas Dunn Antonio Gala Ian Hamilton Finlay Edward Fitzgerald Penelope Fitzgerald Aulus Persius Flaccus Sam Walter Foss Marie de France Veronica Franco Du Fu Solomon Ibn Gabirol Serge Gainsbourg Eugene Field Lawrence Ferlinghetti Stephen Dunn Edward Dyer Richard Eberhart Paul Eluard William Empson Quintus Ennius John Erskine Mari Evans William Falconer James Fenton Ferdowsi