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 |