| 100% | HORACE | 6 | Poet who wrote "I have executed a memorial longer lasting than bronze" |
| 36% | VICTORHUGO | 10 | Poet who wrote "My heart has far more fire than you can frost to chill" |
| 36% | POE | 3 | Poet who wrote the line "But we loved with a love that was more than love" |
| 35% | POE | 3 | Poet who wrote "We loved with a love that was more than love" |
| 35% | PLATH | 5 | Poet who wrote "I am a mountain now, among mountainy women" |
| 35% | PAUL | 4 | Apostle who wrote "Ye see how large a letter I have written" |
| 34% | 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" |
| 33% | YEATS | 5 | Poet who wrote "I have spread my dreams under your feet / Tread softly because you tread on my dreams" |
| 32% | BROWNING | 8 | Poet who wrote My Last Duchess: Robert __ |
| 32% | KEATS | 5 | Poet who wrote Ode to a Nightingale |
| 32% | OMAR | 4 | Poet who wrote a-a-b-a verses |
| 32% | POE | 3 | Poet who wrote "Once upon a midnight dreary ..." |
| 32% | ELIOT | 5 | Poet who wrote, “Let us go then, you and I, / When the evening is spread out against the sky / Like a patient etherized upon a table” |
| 32% | 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" |
| 32% | LOUISEGLUCK | 11 | Literature Nobelist who wrote “The great thing / is not having / a mind. Feelings: / oh, I have those; they / govern me” |
| 32% | ELIOT | 5 | Poet who wrote "Do I dare / Disturb the universe?" |
| 32% | TSELIOT | 7 | Poet who wrote "Do I dare / Disturb the universe?" |
| 32% | POE | 3 | Poet who wrote a poem about a talking raven |
| 32% | BROWNING | 8 | Robert, poet who wrote My Last Duchess |
| 31% | THEODORADORNO | 13 | Frankfurt School philosopher who said, “To those who no longer have a homeland, writing becomes home” |
| 31% | GAILSIMONE | 10 | Writer who had the longest tenure as a woman writing Wonder Woman comic books (2 wds.) |
| 31% | NERUDA | 6 | Poet who wrote "Tonight I can write the saddest lines" |
| 31% | MAYAANGELOU | 11 | Poet who wrote the memoir "Mom & Me & Mom" (2 wds.) |
| 31% | ANGELOU | 7 | Maya ___, US poet who wrote "Still I Rise" |
| 31% | ANGELOU | 7 | Maya ___, poet who wrote "And Still I Rise" |
| 31% | NIN | 3 | Novelist who wrote "I have no fear of depths and a great fear of shallow living" |
| 31% | NERUDA | 6 | Poet who wrote "Love is so short, forgetting is so long" |
| 31% | POE | 3 | Poet who wrote the opening line "Once upon a midnight dreary ..." |
| 31% | HOUSMAN | 7 | English poet who wrote A Shropshire Lad: A.E. __ |
| 30% | OMAR | 4 | Poet who wrote "The moving finger writes; and, having writ, moves on" |