| A | B |
| Samuel Taylor Coleridge | "Water, water everywhere and not a drop to drink." |
| Dante Alighieri | "All hope abandon, ye who enter here." |
| Emily Dickinson | "Because I could not stop for death, he kindly stopped for me." |
| Ralph Waldo Emerson | "Beauty has its own excuse for being." |
| Robert Frost | "I took the one less traveled by, and that has made all the difference." |
| John Keats | "'Beauty is truth, truth beauty' that is all ye know on Earth and all ye need to know." |
| William Shakespeare | "All the world's a stage and all the men and women merely players." |
| Oscar Wilde | "Yet each man kills the thing he loves." |
| Matthew Arnold | "Swept with confused alarms of struggle and fright, where ignorant armies clash by night." |
| Robert Browning | "Grow old along with me, the best is yet to be." |
| Robert Burns | "O my loves is like a red, red rose, that's newly sprung in June.." |
| Elizabeth Barret Browning | "How do I love thee? Let me count the ways." |
| William Blake | "Tyger, Tyger burning bright in the forest of the night.." |
| Lewis Carroll | "'Twas brillig and the slithy toves went gyre and gimble in the wabe.." |
| Wilfred Owen | "Dulce et decorum et por patria mori." |
| Langston Hughes | "My soul has grown deep like the rivers." |
| Thomas Hardy | "An aged thrush, frail, gaunt, and small, in blast beruffled plume" |
| Rudyard Kipling | "It was "Din! Din! Din! You 'eathen where the devil have you been?" |
| Henry Wadsworth Longfellow | "Tell me not in mournful numbers life is but an empty dream." |
| Edgar Lee Masters | "Life is too strong for you. It takes life to love life." |
| Alexander Pope | "A little learning is a dangerous thing.." |
| Percy Blysse Shelley | "My name is Ozymandias, king of kings: look on my works ye mighty and despair!" |
| Alfred Lord Tennyson | "..Half a league onward, into the valley of Death rode the six hundred." |
| Dylan Thomas | "Do not go gentle into that good night." |
| Walt Whitman | "Oh Captain, my Captain, our fearful trip is done." |
| William Wordsworth | "I wandered lonely as a cloud." |
| William Butler Yeats | "The falcon cannot hear the falconer." |
| Richard Wilbur | 'Ask us, ask us whether with the worldless rose, Our hearts shall fail us." |
| Williams Carlos Williams | "so much depends on a red wheel barrow.." |
| e.e.cummings | "anyone lived in a pretty how-town." |
| Anne Bradstreet | "If ever two were one then surely we." |