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Name	Years	Country	Profession	Quotes	Rank
Sophocles	-496--406	Greek	Poet	140	11
Euripides	-480--406	Greek	Poet	68	11
Audre Lorde	1934-1992	American	Poet	43	11
Mattie Stepanek	1990-2004	American	Poet	39	11
Hesiod	-800--720	Greek	Poet	44	101
Aristophanes	-448--380	Greek	Poet	20	101
Quintus Ennius	-239--169	Roman	Poet	8	101
Lucretius	-94--55	Roman	Poet	19	101
Phaedrus	-15--50	Roman	Poet	22	101
Ryunosuke Satoro		Japanese	Poet	4	101
Ausonius	310-395	Roman	Poet	5	101
Saadi	1184-1283	Iranian	Poet	16	101
Yunus Emre	1238-1320	Turkish	Poet	3	101
Petrarch	1304-1374	Italian	Poet	21	101
William Dunbar	1460-1520	Scottish	Poet	7	101
Pietro Aretino	1492-1556	Italian	Poet	12	101
Torquato Tasso	1544-1595	Italian	Poet	9	101
Francis Quarles	1592-1644	English	Poet	27	101
Abraham Cowley	1618-1667	English	Poet	11	101
Jean de La Fontaine	1621-1695	French	Poet	46	101
William Congreve	1670-1729	English	Poet	30	101
Edward Young	1683-1765	English	Poet	44	101
Oliver Goldsmith	1730-1774	Irish	Poet	40	101
Charles Churchill	1731-1764	English	Poet	14	101
Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel	1772-1829	German	Poet	88	101
Novalis	1772-1801	German	Poet	21	101
Walter Savage Landor	1775-1864	English	Poet	35	101
Bryan Procter	1787-1874	English	Poet	12	101
Franz Grillparzer	1791-1872	Austrian	Poet	28	101
Thomas Babington Macaulay	1800-1859	British	Poet	47	101
Henrik Ibsen	1828-1906	Norwegian	Poet	28	101
Alexander Smith	1830-1867	Scottish	Poet	30	101
Edmund Clarence Stedman	1833-1908	American	Poet	3	101
Samuel Butler	1835-1902	British	Poet	164	101
Paul Valery	1871-1945	French	Poet	37	101
Don Marquis	1878-1937	American	Poet	44	101
Antonio Porchia	1886-1968	Italian	Poet	27	101
Edith Sitwell	1887-1964	British	Poet	16	101
Herbert Read	1893-1968	English	Poet	40	101
Louis Aragon	1897-1982	French	Poet	9	101
Cesare Pavese	1908-1950	Italian	Poet	25	101
Stanislaw Jerzy Lec	1909-1966	Polish	Poet	22	101
Irving Layton	1912-2006	Canadian	Poet	8	101
Gwendolyn Brooks	1917-2000	American	Poet	15	101
Wislawa Szymborska	1923-2012	Polish	Poet	48	101
Ian Hamilton Finlay	1925-	Scottish	Poet	18	101
Yevgeny Yevtushenko	1933-	Russian	Poet	15	101
Wendell Berry	1934-	American	Poet	42	101
Mary Oliver	1935-	American	Poet	64	101
Seamus Heaney	1939-2013	Irish	Poet	102	101
Nikki Giovanni	1943-	American	Poet	37	101
Zoketsu Norman Fischer	1946-	American	Poet	2	101
Floyd Skloot	1947-	American	Poet	34	101
Yusef Komunyakaa	1947-	American	Poet	17	101
Diane Ackerman	1948-	American	Poet	52	101
Gil Scott-Heron	1949-2011	American	Poet	34	101
Paul Muldoon	1951-	English	Poet	38	101
Franz Wright	1953-	American	Poet	16	101
David Whyte	1955-	English	Poet	50	101
Mary Karr	1955-	American	Poet	49	101
Ben Okri	1959-	Nigerian	Poet	48	101
Natasha Trethewey	1966-	American	Poet	62	101
Menander	-342--292	Greek	Poet	17	102
Lucan	39-65	Roman	Poet	6	102
Juvenal	60-130	Roman	Poet	17	102
Ferdowsi	935-1020	Persian	Poet	5	102
Solomon Ibn Gabirol	1021-1058	Spanish	Poet	17	102
Veronica Franco	1546-1591	Italian	Poet	4	102
Francois de Malherbe	1555-1628	French	Poet	2	102
George Chapman	1559-1634	English	Poet	17	102
William Shenstone	1714-1763	English	Poet	24	102
William Falconer	1732-1769	Scottish	Poet	20	102
Leigh Hunt	1784-1859	English	Poet	14	102
William C. Bryant	1794-1878	American	Poet	28	102
Alfred de Vigny	1797-1863	French	Poet	21	102
Philip James Bailey	1816-1902	English	Poet	17	102
Lucy Larcom	1824-1893	American	Poet	39	102
Thomas Bailey Aldrich	1836-1907	American	Poet	45	102
Will Carleton	1845-1912	American	Poet	7	102
A. E. Housman	1859-1936	English	Poet	21	102
W. H. Davies	1871-1940	Welsh	Poet	7	102
Kenneth Rexroth	1905-1982	American	Poet	7	102
Paul Engle	1908-1991	American	Poet	35	102
Norman MacCaig	1910-1996	Scottish	Poet	33	102
May Sarton	1912-1995	American	Poet	21	102
James Laughlin	1914-1997	American	Poet	21	102
William Jay Smith	1918-2015	American	Poet	12	102
Kenneth Koch	1925-2002	American	Poet	24	102
W. S. Merwin	1927-	American	Poet	3	102
Donald Hall	1928-	American	Poet	67	102
Gary Snyder	1930-	American	Poet	2	102
Amiri Baraka	1934-2014	American	Poet	42	102
Lucille Clifton	1936-	American	Poet	2	102
Ishmael Reed	1938-	American	Poet	7	102
David McFadden	1940-	Canadian	Poet	3	102
Fanny Howe	1940-	American	Poet	5	102
Mahmoud Darwish	1941-2008	Palestinian	Poet	25	102
Robert Morgan	1944-	American	Poet	56	102
Tahar Ben Jelloun	1944-	French	Poet	48	102
Clarissa Pinkola Estes	1945-	American	Poet	16	102
Philip Schultz	1945-	American	Poet	36	102
Wendy Cope	1945-	English	Poet	14	102
Eileen Myles	1949-	American	Poet	54	102
Katha Pollitt	1949-	American	Poet	32	102
Edward Hirsch	1950-	American	Poet	78	102
Joy Harjo	1951-	American	Poet	29	102
Helen Dunmore	1952-	British	Poet	27	102
Linton Kwesi Johnson	1952-	Jamaican	Poet	10	102
Rita Dove	1952-	American	Poet	62	102
Carol Ann Duffy	1955-	British	Poet	32	102
John O'Donohue	1956-2008	Irish	Poet	24	102
Claudia Rankine	1963-	American	Poet	16	102
Alice Oswald	1966-	British	Poet	38	102
Meghan O'Rourke	1976-	American	Poet	41	102
Pindar	-552--433	Greek	Poet	13	103
Sextus Propertius	-50--15	Roman	Poet	16	103
Anne Stevenson		American	Poet	31	103
Chilon		Greek	Poet	2	103
George Murray		Canadian	Poet	28	103
Thiruvalluvar			Poet	20	103
Taliesin	534-599	Welsh	Poet	4	103
Hafez	1326-	Persian	Poet	6	103
Thomas Tusser	1524-1580	English	Poet	7	103
Nicholas Breton	1545-1626	English	Poet	3	103
William Drummond	1585-1649	Scottish	Poet	9	103
Edmund Waller	1606-1687	English	Poet	22	103
William Davenant	1606-1668	English	Poet	3	103
Nicolas Boileau-Despreaux	1636-1711	French	Poet	4	103
William Collins	1721-1759	English	Poet	9	103
Alphonse de Lamartine	1790-1869	French	Poet	15	103
Felicia Hemans	1793-1835	British	Poet	2	103
Frederick Tennyson	1807-1898	English	Poet	2	103
Frederick Locker-Lampson	1821-1895	English	Poet	1	103
Henry Austin Dobson	1840-1921	English	Poet	6	103
Comte de Lautreamont	1846-1870	French	Poet	11	103
William Watson	1858-1935	English	Poet	6	103
Herman Gorter	1864-1927	Dutch	Poet	17	103
Richard Le Gallienne	1866-1947	English	Poet	26	103
Lascelles Abercrombie	1881-1938	British	Poet	22	103
William Rose Benet	1886-1950	American	Poet	3	103
Nelly Sachs	1891-1970	German	Poet	3	103
Eugenio Montale	1896-1981	Italian	Poet	27	103
Elizabeth Bibesco	1897-1945	British	Poet	26	103
Frank Scott	1899-1985	Canadian	Poet	4	103
Hart Crane	1899-1932	American	Poet	9	103
Richard Armour	1906-1989	American	Poet	12	103
William Empson	1906-1984	English	Poet	7	103
Karl Shapiro	1913-2000	American	Poet	11	103
Lawrence Ferlinghetti	1919-	American	Poet	22	103
Frank O'Hara	1926-1966	American	Poet	3	103
Philip Levine	1928-2015	American	Poet	24	103
Serge Gainsbourg	1928-1991	French	Poet	2	103
Thom Gunn	1929-2004	British	Poet	27	103
David Antin	1932-	American	Poet	37	103
Robert Pinsky	1940-	American	Poet	28	103
Marilyn Hacker	1942-	American	Poet	37	103
Eavan Boland	1944-	Irish	Poet	26	103
Juan Felipe Herrera	1948-	American	Poet	46	103
George Fetherling	1949-	Canadian	Poet	5	103
Tom Paulin	1949-	Irish	Poet	29	103
Brenda Hillman	1951-	American	Poet	6	103
Andrew Motion	1952-	English	Poet	44	103
Marly Youmans	1953-	American	Poet	2	103
Thylias Moss	1954-	American	Poet	3	103
Sophie Hannah	1971-	British	Poet	46	103
Tracy K. Smith	1972-	American	Poet	22	103
Marie de France		French	Poet	15	104
Persius	34-62	Italian	Poet	8	104
William Whitehead	1715-1785	English	Poet	2	104
George Crabbe	1754-1832	English	Poet	11	104
Horace Smith	1779-1849	English	Poet	4	104
Bernard Barton	1784-1849	American	Poet	3	104
Henry Timrod	1829-1867	American	Poet	3	104
Samuel Ullman	1840-1924	American	Poet	6	104
John Boyle O'Reilly	1844-1890	Irish	Poet	21	104
Carl Spitteler	1845-1924	Swiss	Poet	4	104
Edwin Markham	1852-1940	American	Poet	11	104
Christian Morgenstern	1871-1914	German	Poet	3	104
John Millington Synge	1871-1909	Irish	Poet	20	104
Hugh MacDiarmid	1892-1978	Scottish	Poet	3	104
Bradley Chicho	1895-	English	Poet	14	104
Joseph Auslander	1897-1965	American	Poet	1	104
Laura Riding	1901-1991	American	Poet	11	104
George Oppen	1908-1984	American	Poet	8	104
Charles Olson	1910-1970	American	Poet	24	104
Muriel Rukeyser	1913-1980	American	Poet	24	104
Edwin Morgan	1920-2010	Scottish	Poet	6	104
Etel Adnan	1925-	Lebanese	Poet	12	104
A. R. Ammons	1926-2001	American	Poet	26	104
Diane Wakoski	1937-	American	Poet	26	104
Sharon Olds	1942-	American	Poet	23	104
Ellen Bass	1947-	American	Poet	6	104
James Fenton	1949-	British	Poet	55	104
Anne Carson	1950-	Canadian	Poet	14	104
William F. DeVault	1955-	American	Poet	2	104
Taylor Mali	1965-	American	Poet	9	104
Tobias Hill	1970-	British	Poet	11	104
Lemon Andersen	1975-	American	Poet	11	104
Archilochus	-680--645	Greek	Poet	3	105
Alcaeus		Greek	Poet	4	105
Lisel Mueller		American	Poet	6	105
Lucius Accius		Italian	Poet	5	105
Mary Szybist		American	Poet	8	105
Prudentius			Poet	4	105
Ludovico Ariosto	1474-1533	Italian	Poet	8	105
Edward Dyer	1543-1607	English	Poet	5	105
Thomas Middleton	1580-1627	English	Poet	7	105
Anna Letitia Barbauld	1743-1825	English	Poet	6	105
August Wilhelm von Schlegel	1767-1845	German	Poet	2	105
James Hogg	1770-1835	Scottish	Poet	6	105
Eliza Cook	1818-1889	English	Poet	5	105
Phoebe Cary	1824-1871	American	Poet	3	105
Gerald Massey	1828-1907	English	Poet	2	105
Thomas Edward Brown	1830-1897	British	Poet	7	105
Edwin Arnold	1832-1904	English	Poet	3	105
Margaret Elizabeth Sangster	1838-1912	American	Poet	3	105
Ernest Dowson	1867-1900	English	Poet	3	105
Edmond Rostand	1868-1918	French	Poet	4	105
Elinor Wylie	1885-1928	American	Poet	3	105
Mark Van Doren	1894-1972	American	Poet	8	105
Raymond Queneau	1903-1976	French	Poet	19	105
Penelope Fitzgerald	1916-2000	English	Poet	2	105
Louis Dudek	1918-2001	Canadian	Poet	8	105
Anthony Hecht	1923-2004	American	Poet	6	105
Mari Evans	1923-	American	Poet	2	105
Carolyn Kizer	1925-2014	American	Poet	11	105
Robert Creeley	1926-2005	American	Poet	15	105
Galway Kinnell	1927-2014	American	Poet	3	105
Miller Williams	1930-	American	Poet	9	105
Mark Strand	1934-2014	American	Poet	25	105
C. K. Williams	1936-2015	American	Poet	11	105
Goenawan Mohamad	1941-	Indonesian	Poet	3	105
Robert Hass	1941-	American	Poet	19	105
Louise Gluck	1943-	American	Poet	7	105
Rene Ricard	1946-2014	American	Poet	13	105
Ron Rash	1953-	American	Poet	17	105
Simon Armitage	1963-	British	Poet	15	105
Theocritus	-270-	Greek	Poet	3	106
Robin Coste Lewis		American	Poet	10	106
Thomas Overbury	1581-1613	English	Poet	2	106
Robert Blair	1699-1746	Scottish	Poet	9	106
Ernst Moritz Arndt	1769-1860	German	Poet	2	106
Ludwig Tieck	1773-1853	German	Poet	2	106
Adelbert von Chamisso	1781-1838	German	Poet	14	106
Charles Mackay	1814-1889	British	Poet	7	106
Bliss Carman	1861-1929	Canadian	Poet	5	106
Gabriele D'Annunzio	1863-1938	Italian	Poet	1	106
John Crowe Ransom	1888-1974	American	Poet	13	106
Austin Clarke	1896-1974	Irish	Poet	13	106
Basil Bunting	1900-1985	British	Poet	5	106
Elizabeth Jennings	1926-2001	English	Poet	2	106
Al Alvarez	1929-	English	Poet	12	106
Rod McKuen	1933-	American	Poet	11	106
Roger McGough	1937-	British	Poet	10	106
Libby Houston	1941-	British	Poet	2	106
Tim Seibles	1955-	American	Poet	3	106
Amy Gerstler	1956-	American	Poet	17	106
Michael Redhill	1966-	Canadian	Poet	15	106
Daphne Gottlieb	1968-	American	Poet	10	106
Ross Gay	1974-	American	Poet	9	106
Rowan Ricardo Phillips	1974-	American	Poet	12	106
Bernard Joseph Saurin			Poet	3	107
Caecilius Statius		Roman	Poet	4	107
John Barton		Canadian	Poet	32	107
Barnabe Barnes	1569-1609	English	Poet	2	107
Christoph Martin Wieland	1733-1813	German	Poet	4	107
Samuel Rogers	1763-1855	English	Poet	5	107
Charles Stuart Calverley	1831-1884	English	Poet	4	107
Robert Bridges	1844-1930	English	Poet	7	107
Alice Meynell	1847-1922	English	Poet	10	107
Bessie Anderson Stanley	1879-1952	American	Poet	1	107
Carl Rakosi	1903-2004	German	Poet	3	107
C. Day Lewis	1904-1972	English	Poet	4	107
B. R. Hayden	1913-1980	American	Poet	3	107
Sydney Carter	1915-2004	English	Poet	6	107
Al Purdy	1918-2000	Canadian	Poet	9	107
Robert Duncan	1919-1988	American	Poet	5	107
David Ferry	1924-	American	Poet	3	107
Maxine Kumin	1925-2014	American	Poet	11	107
Adrian Mitchell	1932-2008	British	Poet	8	107
Douglas Dunn	1942-	Scottish	Poet	6	107
Susan Polis Schutz	1944-	American	Poet	6	107
Andrei Codrescu	1946-	American	Poet	10	107
David Lehman	1948-	American	Poet	5	107
Susan Stewart	1952-	American	Poet	7	107
Anne Michaels	1958-	Canadian	Poet	11	107
Suheir Hammad	1973-	Palestinian	Poet	5	107
Du Mu		Chinese	Poet	2	108
Steven Sater		American	Poet	3	108
Silius Italicus	25-101		Poet	4	108
Marcus Valerius Martial	43-104	Spanish	Poet	9	108
Joshua Sylvester	1563-1618	English	Poet	3	108
Richard Barnfield	1574-1627	English	Poet	4	108
Rahman Baba	1653-1711		Poet	3	108
Aaron Hill	1685-1750	English	Poet	6	108
Matthew Green	1696-1737	British	Poet	8	108
Richard Savage	1697-1743	English	Poet	4	108
Robert Lloyd	1733-1764	English	Poet	3	108
Anne Grant	1755-1838	Scottish	Poet	6	108
Charles Wolfe	1791-1823	Irish	Poet	2	108
Charles Tennyson Turner	1808-1879	English	Poet	3	108
Jones Very	1813-1880	American	Poet	6	108
Adelaide Anne Procter	1825-1864	English	Poet	7	108
Sam Walter Foss	1858-1911	American	Poet	3	108
Stephen Phillips	1864-1915	English	Poet	2	108
Adela Florence Nicolson	1865-1904	English	Poet	5	108
Ralph Hodgson	1871-1962	English	Poet	4	108
Renee Vivien	1877-1909	British	Poet	4	108
Carlos Drummond de Andrade	1902-1987	Brazilian	Poet	2	108
Richard Eberhart	1904-2005	American	Poet	3	108
Rene Char	1907-1988	French	Poet	3	108
Margaret Walker	1915-1998	American	Poet	8	108
Richard Wilbur	1921-	American	Poet	3	108
Robert Bly	1926-	American	Poet	4	108
John Ashbery	1927-	American	Poet	5	108
Sunil Gangopadhyay	1934-2012	Indian	Poet	3	108
Stephen Levine	1937-	American	Poet	2	108
Charles Simic	1938-	American	Poet	3	108
Stephen Dunn	1939-	American	Poet	2	108
Jack Prelutsky	1940-	American	Poet	24	108
Stephen Dobyns	1941-	American	Poet	4	108
Craig Raine	1944-	English	Poet	2	108
Robert Bringhurst	1946-	Canadian	Poet	3	108
Jesse Ball	1978-	American	Poet	23	108
Maggie Nelson		American	Poet	4	109
Richard Blackmore	1654-1729	English	Poet	2	109
John Gay	1685-1732	English	Poet	21	109
John Drinkwater	1882-1937	English	Poet	20	109
Arna Bontemps	1902-1973	American	Poet	4	109
Malcolm Lowry	1909-1957	English	Poet	4	109
Aime Cesaire	1913-2008	French	Poet	4	109
Amy Clampitt	1920-1994	American	Poet	4	109
Aram Saroyan	1943-	American	Poet	5	109
Marilyn Nelson	1946-	American	Poet	6	109
Andrew Hudgins	1951-	American	Poet	5	109
Anacreon		Greek	Poet	2	110
Anne Spencer			Poet	3	110
Alexander Brome	1620-1666	English	Poet	2	110
Angelus Silesius	1624-1677	German	Poet	2	110
Mark Akenside	1721-1770	English	Poet	4	110
Alice Cary	1820-1871	American	Poet	2	110
John Jay Chapman	1862-1933	American	Poet	17	110
Alice Duer Miller	1874-1942	American	Poet	2	110
Max Jacob	1876-1944	French	Poet	3	110
Anna Wickham	1884-1947	British	Poet	2	110
Juan Goytisolo	1931-	Spanish	Poet	16	110
Michael Cadnum	1949-	American	Poet	4	110
Milarepa	1052-1135		Poet	2	111
James Beattie	1735-1803	Scottish	Poet	11	111
Aubrey de Vere	1788-1846	Irish	Poet	2	111
Jean Ingelow	1820-1897	English	Poet	11	111
Anton Wildgans	1881-1932	Austrian	Poet	1	111
Margaret Sackville	1881-1963	English	Poet	2	111
James Schuyler	1923-1991	American	Poet	10	111
James Merrill	1926-1995	American	Poet	11	111
James Montgomery	1771-1854	British	Poet	8	112
Jane Hirshfield	1953-	American	Poet	9	112
Janet Erskine Stuart		English	Poet	6	113
James Tate	1943-2015	American	Poet	7	113
John Leonard	1965-	Australian	Poet	7	113
Jacopo Sannazaro	1458-1530	Italian	Poet	5	114
John Erskine	1879-1951	American	Poet	5	114
Jack Gilbert	1925-2012	American	Poet	4	114
Joachim du Bellay	1522-1560	French	Poet	3	115
John Cleveland	1613-1658	English	Poet	4	115
Joel Barlow	1754-1812	American	Poet	4	115
Joanna Baillie	1762-1851	Scottish	Poet	4	115
John Petit-Senn	1792-1870	French	Poet	4	115
Joyce Kilmer	1886-1918	American	Poet	4	115
John Holmes	1904-1962	American	Poet	4	115
John Fuller	1937-	English	Poet	4	115
Jacques Delille	1738-1813	French	Poet	2	116
James Gates Percival	1795-1854	American	Poet	2	116
Juan Ramon Jimenez	1881-1958	Spanish	Poet	3	116
John Marston	1576-1634	English	Poet	2	117
John Sheffield	1648-1721	English	Poet	2	117
Jules Laforgue	1860-1887	French	Poet	2	117

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