| 100% | YEATS | 5 | Poet who wrote "I have spread my dreams under your feet / Tread softly because you tread on my dreams" |
| 40% | DREAMS | 6 | Tread softly because you tread on my __, W B Yeats |
| 36% | ALDA | 4 | Actor Alan who wrote "If I Understood You, Would I Have This Look on My Face?" |
| 36% | ALDA | 4 | Alan who wrote the book "If I Understood You, Would I Have This Look on My Face?" |
| 35% | ALAN | 4 | Actor Alda who wrote the best-seller "If I Understood You, Would I Have This Look on My Face?" |
| 32% | ANGELOU | 7 | Poet who wrote "You may shoot me with your words, / You may cut me with your eyes" |
| 31% | OPRAH | 5 | Winfrey who said "I still have my feet on the ground, I just wear better shoes" |
| 30% | VICTORHUGO | 10 | Poet who wrote "My heart has far more fire than you can frost to chill" |
| 30% | 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” |
| 28% | OMAR | 4 | Poet who wrote "The moving finger writes; and, having writ, moves on" |
| 28% | DONNE | 5 | Poet who wrote "For God's sake hold your tongue, and let me love" |
| 28% | SAHL | 4 | Satirist who said "If you were the only person left on the planet, I would have to attack you. That's my job" |
| 28% | HORACE | 6 | Poet who wrote "I have executed a memorial longer lasting than bronze" |
| 28% | FORMALREQUESTS | 14 | "Would you pin on my corsage?" and "May I have this dance?"? |
| 27% | SAHL | 4 | Political satirist who said "If you were the only person left on the planet, I would have to attack you. That's my job" |
| 27% | TSELIOT | 7 | Poet who wrote "I grow old ... I grow old ... / I shall wear the bottoms of my trousers rolled" |
| 27% | BONO | 4 | U2 member who sang "I've Got You Under My Skin" with Frank Sinatra on "Duets" |
| 27% | PORCH | 5 | "I was hiding under your ___ because I love you," romantic words from "Up" |
| 26% | BCC | 3 | "And your 2 million loser friends all have my address now / Because you never figured out the way to ___" (lyric from Weird Al's "Stop Forwarding That Crap to Me") |
| 26% | ALDA | 4 | "If I Understood You, Would I Have This Look on My Face?" memoirist Alan |
| 26% | 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" |
| 25% | EMILYDICKINSON | 14 | Female US poet who wrote "I'm Nobody! Who are you?": 2 wds. |
| 25% | KERRI | 5 | With 37-Across, 1996 US gymnastics Olympic gold medalist who wrote the memoir "Landing on My Feet" |
| 25% | HIP | 3 | "I put my hand up on your ___ / When I dip, you dip, we dip" |
| 25% | MEL | 3 | Brooks who wrote, “If I cut my finger, that’s tragedy. Comedy is if you walk into an open sewer and die” |
| 25% | DARIA | 5 | Sarcastic MTV toon who said, "Do you think if you breathe on me, I might catch your enthusiasm?" |
| 25% | ALDA | 4 | Actor Alan whose third memoir is "If I Understood You, Would I Have This Look on My Face?" |
| 25% | JOHNLEGEND | 10 | "All of Me" singer who performed "History Has Its Eyes on You" on "The Hamilton Mixtape": 2 wds. |
| 25% | YEATS | 5 | Poet who wrote "In dreams begins responsibility" |
| 25% | BROWNING | 8 | Poet who wrote My Last Duchess: Robert __ |