Poet Quotes
- William Somervile 1675 - 1742
- William Soutar 1898 - 1943
- William Stafford 1914 - 1993
- William Topaz McGonagall 1825 - 1902
- William Watson 1858 - 1935
- William Wetmore Story 1819 - 1895
- William Whitehead 1715 - 1785
- William Wordsworth 1770 - 1850
- Willie Nelson 1933 -
- Willis Gaylord Clark 1808 - 1841
- Winfield Townley Scott 1910 - 1968
- Winnie Holzman 1954 -
- Wislawa Szymborska 1923 - 2012
- Witter Bynner 1881 - 196
- Wole Soyinka 1934 -
- Wolfgang Borchert 1921 - 1947
- X. J. Kennedy 1929 -
- Xenophanes 570 - 475
- Xu Zhimo 1897 - 1931
- Yang Wanli 1127 - 1206
- Yehuda Amichai 1924 - 2000
- Yevgeny Baratynsky 1800 - 1844
- Yevgeny Yevtushenko 1932 - 2017
- Yolande Cornelia "Nikki" Giovanni, Jr. 1943 -
- Yukio Mishima 1925 - 1970
- Yunus Emre 1238 - 1320
- Z'EV 1951 - 2017
- Zachary Schomburg -
- Zanemvula Kizito Gatyeni Mda 1948 -
- Zbigniew Herbert 1924 - 1998
- Ze'ev Jabotinsky 1880 - 1940
- Zelda Fitzgerald 1900 - 1948
- Zoe Akins 1886 - 1958
- Zoketsu Norman Fischer 1946 -