| 100% | PLATH | 5 | Poet who wrote, "The worst enemy to creativity is self-doubt" |
| 56% | ELIOT | 5 | Poet who wrote "Anxiety is the handmaiden of creativity" |
| 49% | PLATH | 5 | Poet who wrote "I took a deep breath and listened to the old brag of my heart. I am, I am, I am" |
| 48% | SUNTZU | 6 | Who wrote "The supreme art of war is to subdue the enemy without fighting" |
| 48% | GRACEPALEY | 10 | Author and activist who wrote, “It is the poet’s responsibility to learn the truth from the powerless” |
| 48% | AUDEN | 5 | Poet who wrote "All pity is self-pity" |
| 47% | ELIOT | 5 | Poet who wrote "April is the cruellest month" |
| 47% | DANTE | 5 | Poet who wrote "In the middle of the journey of our life I came to myself within a dark wood where the straight way was lost" |
| 47% | POPE | 4 | Poet who wrote "To err is human; to forgive, divine" |
| 46% | AUDEN | 5 | Poet who wrote "For the Time Being" and "Another Time" |
| 46% | POE | 3 | Poet who wrote the line "But we loved with a love that was more than love" |
| 45% | DANTE | 5 | Italian poet who wrote "Nature is the art of God" |
| 45% | ANAISNIN | 8 | Who wrote "The only abnormality is the incapacity to love" |
| 45% | YEATS | 5 | Poet who wrote "I will arise and go now, and go to Innisfree" |
| 45% | RILKE | 5 | Poet who wrote "The Sonnets to Orpheus" |
| 44% | NASH | 4 | Poet who wrote "The cow is of the bovine ilk; / One end is moo, the other, milk" |
| 44% | WARSANSHIRE | 11 | Poet who wrote "no one leaves home unless home is the mouth of a shark" |
| 44% | OVID | 4 | Poet who wrote "If you want to be loved, be lovable" |
| 44% | POPE | 4 | Poet who wrote "To err is human …" |
| 43% | AYNRAND | 7 | Who wrote "Wealth is the product of man's capacity to think" |
| 43% | ELIOT | 5 | Poet who wrote "This is the way the world ends / Not with a bang but a whimper" |
| 42% | VIRGIL | 6 | Poet who wrote the Aeneid |
| 42% | WHEATLEY | 8 | Phillis who wrote the poem “On Being Brought from Africa to America” |
| 42% | NASH | 4 | Ogden ___, American poet who wrote "The Turtle" and is known as one of the foremost producers of humorous poetry |
| 42% | HOMER | 5 | Greek poet to whom the Iliad is attributed |
| 42% | WARSANSHIRE | 11 | Somali-British poet who wrote, “no one leaves home unless / home is the mouth of a shark” |
| 42% | ALLENGINSBERG | 13 | Poet who wrote “Everything is holy! everybody’s holy! everywhere is holy!” in a “Footnote” to one of his poems |
| 42% | OVID | 4 | Roman poet who wrote "To be loved, be lovable" |
| 41% | TATE | 4 | Poet who wrote the novel "The Fathers" |
| 41% | VOLTAIRE | 8 | Philosopher who wrote "It is difficult to free fools from the chains they revere" |