| 100% | LUCRETIUS | 9 | Epicurean poet who wrote On the Nature of Things |
| 52% | EMMALAZARUS | 11 | Female US poet who wrote "The New Colossus" (the poem on the Statue of Liberty): 2 wds. |
| 51% | DANTE | 5 | Italian poet who wrote "Nature is the art of God" |
| 50% | DONNE | 5 | Poet who wrote, "Nature's great masterpiece, an elephant; the only harmless great thing" |
| 48% | TENNYSON | 8 | Poet who wrote The Charge of the Light Brigade |
| 48% | COLERIDGE | 9 | Poet who wrote The Rime of the Ancient Mariner |
| 48% | DANTE | 5 | Poet who wrote of the nine circles of hell |
| 48% | TENNYSON | 8 | Poet who wrote "The Charge of the Light Brigade" |
| 48% | ELIOT | 5 | Poet who wrote "Anxiety is the handmaiden of creativity" |
| 46% | KEATS | 5 | Poet who wrote "A thing of beauty is a joy for ever" |
| 45% | ELIOT | 5 | Poet who wrote "In the room the women come and go / Talking of Michelangelo" |
| 45% | DANTE | 5 | Poet who wrote "Let us not speak of them, but look, and pass on" |
| 45% | WARSANSHIRE | 11 | Poet who wrote "no one leaves home unless home is the mouth of a shark" |
| 45% | ALLEN | 5 | ___ Ginsberg, poet who wrote "Howl" and a major figure of the Beat Generation |
| 44% | ERICIDLE | 8 | Who wrote and sang "Always Look on the Bright Side of Life" |
| 44% | PROTAGORAS | 10 | Greek philosopher who wrote "Man is the measure of all things" |
| 43% | TSELIOT | 7 | Poet who wrote "I grow old ... I grow old ... / I shall wear the bottoms of my trousers rolled" |
| 43% | YEATS | 5 | Poet who wrote, “Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold” |
| 43% | NASH | 4 | Poet who wrote "The cow is of the bovine ilk; / One end is moo, the other, milk" |
| 43% | WARSANSHIRE | 11 | Somali-British poet who wrote, “no one leaves home unless / home is the mouth of a shark” |
| 42% | DARWISH | 7 | Poet Mahmoud who wrote the Palestinian Declaration of Independence |
| 42% | OMAR | 4 | Poet who wrote "The moving finger writes; and, having writ, moves on" |
| 42% | TENNYSON | 8 | Poet Alfred who wrote "The Charge of the Light Brigade" |
| 42% | NEMEROV | 7 | Poet Howard who wrote "A Primer of the Daily Round" |
| 42% | ELIOT | 5 | Poet who wrote "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock" |
| 42% | NASH | 4 | Ogden ___, American poet who wrote "The Turtle" and is known as one of the foremost producers of humorous poetry |
| 42% | KEROUAC | 7 | Jack who wrote On The Road |
| 41% | IMMANUELKANT | 12 | *Philosopher who wrote "Out of the crooked timber of humanity, no straight thing was ever made" |
| 41% | IDLE | 4 | Monty Python member Eric who wrote "Always Look on the Bright Side of Life: A Sortabiography" |
| 41% | OGDEN | 5 | Nash who wrote "A door is what a dog is perpetually on the wrong side of" |