Poets
Writers, poets: writer| poet| cartoonist| translator
Artists: composer| singer| director| painter| sculptor| architect| photographer
Scientists: philosopher| physicist| biologist| chemist| doctor| psychologist| historian| mathematician| linguist
Public figures: actor| politician| comedian
Artists: composer| singer| director| painter| sculptor| architect| photographer
Scientists: philosopher| physicist| biologist| chemist| doctor| psychologist| historian| mathematician| linguist
Public figures: actor| politician| comedian
Author (number of quotes) | Description |
A | |
Achebe, Chinua (1) | Nigerian novelist, poet |
Ady, Endre (2) | Hungarian poet and publicist |
Aldrich, Thomas Bailey (1) | American author and poet |
Amiel, Henri-Frédéric (8) | Swiss philosopher, poet and criticist |
Angelou, Maya (13) | American author and poet |
Apollinaire, Guillaume (1) | French author, poet, criticist |
Arany, János (3) | Hungarian poet |
Arnold, Matthew (2) | English poet |
Atwood, Margaret (8) | Canadian poet and novelist |
Auerbach, Berthold (1) | German-Jewish poet, author |
B | |
Babits, Mihály (1) | Hungarian poet, author and translator |
Balassi, Bálint (2) | Hungarian poet |
Basho, Matsuo (1) | Japanese poet |
Baudelaire, Charles (3) | French poet |
Beckett, Samuel (2) | Irish novelist, playwright, theatre director, and poet |
Belloc, Hilaire (1) | French-born English poet |
Berry, Wendell (1) | American novelist, poet |
Betjeman, John (1) | English author and poet |
Blake, William (7) | English poet and painter |
Browning, Robert (3) | English poet |
Bulwer-Lytton, Edward (2) | English author, poet, politician |
Burgess, Anthony (2) | English author, poet, composer, and translator |
C | |
Carroll, Lewis (6) | pen name of Charles Lutwidge Dodgson, English author and poet |
Chatterton, Thomas (1) | English poet |
Cocteau, Jean (4) | French poet, author, painter, actor, composer and director |
Cowper, William (2) | English poet |
Csokonai, Vitéz Mihály (4) | Hungarian poet |
Cummings, Edward Estlin (2) | American author, poet, painter |
D | |
Dickinson, Emily (8) | American poet |
Donne, John (1) | English poet |
Doren, Mark Van (1) | American writer, poet |
Drummond, William (1) | Scottish poet |
Dryden, John (4) | English author, poet |
Dylan, Bob (5) | American musician and poet |
E | |
Eliot, T. S. (4) | American poet |
Emerson, Ralph Waldo (42) | American author, poet |
F | |
Fontaine, Jean de La (1) | French author and poet |
France, Anatole (6) | French author, poet |
Frost, Robert (7) | American poet |
Fuller, Richard Buckminster (2) | American architect, poet, author, inventor |
G | |
Gabriol, Salamon Ibn (1) | pen name of Salamon ben Jehuda ibn Gabriol, Spanish poet and philosopher |
Gaiman, Neil (39) | English author and poet |
Gibran, Khalil (1) | Lebanese-American artist, poet, and writer |
Ginsberg, Irwin Allen (1) | American poet |
Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von (15) | German author and poet |
Golding, William (3) | English author and poet |
H | |
Haddon, Mark (1) | English novelist and poet |
Harte, Bret (1) | American author and poet |
Heine, Heinrich (2) | German poet, author, journalist |
Holland, Josiah Gilbert (1) | American author and poet |
Hugo, Victor (17) | French poet, writer |
J | |
Johnson, Kimberly (1) | American poet and scientist |
Johnson, Samuel (10) | English author and poet |
Joyce, James (2) | Irish-born poet, author, criticist |
József, Attila (10) | Hungarian poet |
K | |
Kaur, Rupi (4) | Indian-born Canadian poet, author, and illustrator |
Kazantzakis, Nikos (1) | Greek novelist, poet, playwright and philosopher |
Keats, John (2) | English poet |
Kipling, Joseph Rudyard (3) | English author and poet |
Kosztolányi, Dezső (3) | Hungarian author, poet, translator, journalist |
Kölcsey, Ferenc (1) | Hungarian poet |
Kundera, Milan (3) | Czech-French author, playwright and poet |
L | |
Lamartine, Alphonse de (2) | French author and poet |
Lawrence, D. H. (8) | full name David Herbert Richards Lawrence, English author, poet, literary critic and painter |
Lec, Stanislaw Jerzy (3) | Polish poet |
Levine, Stephen (1) | American poet, author |
Long, Haniel Clark (1) | American poet and author |
Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth (6) | American author and poet |
Lovelace, Richard (1) | English poet |
M | |
MacDonald, George (1) | Scottish author and poet |
Maeterlinck, Maurice (2) | Belgian playwright, poet, and essayist |
McLeod, Bobby (1) | Australian activist, poet and musician |
Meyers, Ernest (1) | Australian poet |
Milligan, Spike (1) | Irish-born author, poet, comedian, musician |
Milton, John (3) | English poet, politician |
Moore, George (1) | Irish-born author and poet |
Morgenstern, Christian (1) | German author and poet |
Morley, Christopher (3) | American journalist, author and poet |
Morrison, Jim (7) | American singer, author, poet, director |
N | |
Nhat Hanh, Thich (4) | Vietnamese Buddhist monk, teacher, author, poet |
O | |
Oppenheim, James (1) | American poet, author |
P | |
Parker, Dorothy (1) | American author, poet |
Pessoa, Fernando (2) | Portuguese poet |
Petőfi, Sándor (11) | Hungarian poet, revolutionist |
Pierce, Edith Lovejoy (1) | English-American poet |
Piercy, Marge (1) | American poet, author, and activist |
Plath, Sylvia (3) | American author and poet |
Poe, Edgar Allan (11) | American author, poet |
Pope, Alexander (5) | English poet |
Pound, Ezra (2) | American poet |
R | |
Radnóti, Miklós (5) | Hungarian poet |
Rilke, Rainer Maria (3) | Austrian poet |
Rimbaud, Arthur (1) | French poet |
Rossetti, Christina (1) | English poet |
Rossetti, Christina Georgina (1) | English poet |
Roux, Joseph (1) | French poet |
S | |
Sandburg, Carl (6) | American author and poet |
Santayana, George (10) | American philosopher, author, poet |
Sarton, May (2) | pen name of Eleanore Marie Sarton, American poet |
Sayers, Dorothy L. (1) | English crime writer, poet |
Service, Robert (1) | English-Canadian author and poet |
Sexton, Anne (1) | American author and poet |
Shakespeare, William (13) | English playwright, poet, actor |
Shelley, Percy Bysshe (2) | English poet |
Simic, Charles (1) | Serbian-American poet |
Sitwell, Edith (1) | British poet and critic |
Southey, Robert (1) | English poet |
Stevenson, Robert Louis (1) | Scottish writer and poet |
T | |
Tennyson, Alfred (2) | English poet |
Thomas, Dylan (1) | Welsh poet and writer |
U | |
Unamuno, Miguel de (1) | Spanish author, poet, philosopher |
V | |
Vinci, Leonardo da (5) | Italian painter, scientist, sculptor, architect, composer, poet and author |
Voltaire (15) | French author, poet, philosopher |
Vörösmarty, Mihály (4) | Hungarian poet, author |
W | |
Whitman, Walt (7) | American poet |
Whittier, John Greenleaf (1) | American poet |
Wilcox, Ella Wheeler (2) | American author, poet |
Wilde, Oscar (88) | Irish poet, author, playwright |
Willard, Nancy (1) | American author and poet |
Wordsworth, William (2) | English poet |
X | |
Xenophanes (1) | Greek philosopher, theologian, poet |
Y | |
Yeats, William Butler (3) | Irish poet, author |
Z | |
Zweig, Stefan (1) | Austrian author, poet, translator |