| 100% | YEATS | 5 | Poet who wrote "In dreams begins responsibility" |
| 56% | DANTE | 5 | Poet who wrote of Beatrice in "Divine Comedy" |
| 55% | THOMAS | 6 | Poet who wrote "A Child's Christmas in Wales" |
| 55% | SCHWARTZ | 8 | Delmore —, US writer whose works include 1938 volume In Dreams Begin Responsibilities |
| 55% | BYRON | 5 | Poet who wrote "She walks in beauty, like the night" |
| 55% | POPE | 4 | Poet who wrote "Hope springs eternal in the human breast" |
| 53% | YEATS | 5 | "In dreams begin responsibility" writer |
| 52% | ALEXANDERPOPE | 13 | English poet who wrote "Hope springs eternal in the human breast" |
| 52% | OVID | 4 | Roman poet who wrote "Love will enter cloaked in friendship's name" |
| 51% | HORACE | 6 | Roman poet who wrote "Seize the day, put no trust in the morrow!" |
| 51% | DANTEALIGHIERI | 14 | Poet who defended writing in the vernacular in "De Vulgari Eloquentia" |
| 51% | JOHNMILTON | 10 | Blind poet who often wrote in an ancient language |
| 50% | NASH | 4 | Poet who wrote "In the Vanities / No one wears panities" |
| 48% | YEATS | 5 | Poet who wrote "I have spread my dreams under your feet / Tread softly because you tread on my dreams" |
| 48% | AUDEN | 5 | Poet who wrote, “Poetry makes nothing happen” in his poem about a poet, “In Memory of W. B. Yeats” |
| 48% | ALLENGINSBERG | 13 | Poet who wrote “Everything is holy! everybody’s holy! everywhere is holy!” in a “Footnote” to one of his poems |
| 47% | ELIOT | 5 | Poet who wrote "In the room the women come and go / Talking of Michelangelo" |
| 46% | ODIST | 5 | Poet who writes tributes |
| 46% | CIARDI | 6 | Poet John who wrote "Lives of X," an autobiography in verse |
| 46% | BLAKE | 5 | Poet who wrote 48-Across |
| 46% | POE | 3 | Poet who wrote "The Raven" |
| 46% | DANTE | 5 | Poet who wrote of Beatrice |
| 46% | OVID | 4 | Poet who wrote of Daedalus |
| 46% | VIRGIL | 6 | Poet who wrote the Aeneid |
| 46% | DANTE | 5 | Poet who wrote "Divine Comedy" |
| 46% | YEATS | 5 | Poet who wrote “The Tower” |
| 45% | MCKUEN | 6 | Poet/lyricist who wrote the 1974 #1 hit "Seasons in the Sun" |
| 45% | YANNI | 5 | Composer Chryssomallis, who wrote "Seven Billion Dreams" in 2015 for NASA's 15th anniversary of the ISS |
| 45% | COLERIDGE | 9 | Poet who wrote "Kubla Khan": Samuel __ |
| 44% | GRACEPALEY | 10 | Author and activist who wrote, “It is the poet’s responsibility to learn the truth from the powerless” |