Quotation authors – poet

A. E. Housman MAR 26, 1859 english A. R. Ammons – american Aaron Hill FEB 10, 1685 english Abraham Cowley – english Adela Florence Nicolson APR 9, 1865 english Adelaide Anne Procter OCT 30, 1825 english Adelbert von Chamisso JAN 30, 1781 deutsch Adrian Mitchell OCT 24, 1932 british Adrienne Rich MAY 16, 1929 american Aeschylus DEC 30, 0524 greek Agathon – greek Aime Cesaire JUN 20, 1913 french Al Alvarez AUG 5, 1929 english Al Purdy DEC 30, 1918 canadian Alcaeus – greek Alden Nowlan JAN 25, 1933 canadian Alexander Brome – english Alexander Pope MAY 21, 1688 english Alexander Smith DEC 31, 1830 scottish Alfred Austin MAY 30, 1835 english Alfred Douglas OCT 22, 1870 english Alfred Lord Tennyson AUG 6, 1809 english Alfred Noyes SEP 16, 1880 english Alfred de Musset DEC 11, 1810 french Alfred de Vigny MAR 27, 1797 french Algernon Charles Swinburne APR 5, 1837 english Alice Cary APR 26, 1820 american Alice Duer Miller JUL 28, 1874 american Alice Meynell SEP 22, 1847 english Allan Cunningham DEC 7, 1784 scottish Allen Ginsberg JUN 3, 1926 american Allen Tate NOV 19, 1899 american Alphonse de Lamartine OCT 21, 1790 french Ambrose Philips – english Amiri Baraka OCT 7, 1934 american Amy Clampitt JUN 15, 1920 american Amy Levy – british Amy Lowell FEB 9, 1874 american Anacreon – greek Andre Breton FEB 18, 1896 french Andrew Lang MAR 31, 1844 scottish Andrew Motion OCT 26, 1952 english Angelus Silesius DEC 25, 1624 deutsch Anna Akhmatova JUN 23, 1889 russian Anna Letitia Barbauld JUN 20, 1743 english Anna Wickham – british Anne Bradstreet JAN 1, 1612 american Anne Grant FEB 21, 1755 scottish Anne Sexton NOV 9, 1928 american Anne Stevenson – american Anthony Hecht JAN 16, 1923 american Antonio Gala – spanish Antonio Machado JUL 26, 1875 spanish Antonio Porchia NOV 13, 1886 italian Archibald MacLeish MAY 7, 1892 american Archilochus – greek Aristophanes DEC 31, 0445 greek Arna Bontemps OCT 13, 1902 american Arrigo Boito FEB 24, 1842 italian Arthur Chapman – american Arthur Hugh Clough JAN 1, 1819 english Arthur O'Shaughnessy MAR 14, 1844 british Arthur Rimbaud OCT 20, 1854 french Arthur Symons FEB 28, 1865 british Aubrey de Vere – irish Audre Lorde FEB 18, 1934 american August Wilhelm von Schlegel SEP 8, 1767 deutsch Aulus Persius Flaccus – italian Ausonius – roman B. R. Hayden – american Barnabe Barnes – english Barry Cornwall NOV 21, 1787 english Basil Bunting MAR 3, 1900 british Ben Jonson JUN 11, 1572 english Ben Okri MAR 15, 1959 nigerian Bernard Barton JAN 31, 1784 american Bertolt Brecht FEB 10, 1898 deutsch Bliss Carman APR 15, 1861 canadian Boris Vian MAR 10, 1920 french Bradley Chicho FEB 5, 1895 english Bryant H. McGill NOV 7, 1969 american C. Day Lewis APR 27, 1904 english C. S. Calverley DEC 22, 1831 english Caecilius Statius – roman Callimachus – greek Carl Rakosi NOV 6, 1903 deutsch Carl Sandburg JAN 6, 1878 american Carl Spitteler APR 24, 1845 swiss Carlos Drummond de Andrade OCT 31, 1902 brazilian Carlos Wilcox OCT 22, 1794 american