Poetry
- 2009 — Mark Strand
- 2003 — W. S. Merwin
- 1997 — John Ashbery
- 1991 — Richard Wilbur
- 1985 — Robert Penn Warren
- 1979 — Archibald MacLeish
- 1973 — John Crowe Ransom
- 1968 — W. H. Auden
- 1963 — William Carlos Williams
- 1958 — Conrad Aiken
- 1953 — Marianne Moore
- 1939 — Robert Frost
- 1929 — Edwin Arlington Robinson
- 1911 — James Whitcomb Riley
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Famous quotes containing the word poetry:
“Hence poetry is something more philosophic and of graver import than history, since its statements are rather of the nature of universals, whereas those of history are singulars.”
—Aristotle (384–322 B.C.)
“Surrealism is not a school of poetry but a movement of liberation.... A way of rediscovering the language of innocence, a renewal of the primordial pact, poetry is the basic text, the foundation of the human order. Surrealism is revolutionary because it is a return to the beginning of all beginnings.”
—Octavio Paz (b. 1914)
“Only poetry inspires poetry.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)