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Name some famous poets and their poems.


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Edgar Allen Poe
Birthplace: Boston
Famous poem: ”The Raven”
Famous quote: ”I have great faith in fools — self-confidence my friends call it.”

William Shakespeare
Birthplace: Stratford-upon-Avon, England
Famous poem: ”Sonnet XVIII” (Shall I compare thee to a summer’s day?)
Famous quote: ”All the world’s a stage, and all the men and women merely players: they have their exits and their entrances; and one man in his time plays many parts. His acts being seven ages.”

Maya Angelou
Birthplace: St. Louis
Famous poem: ”On the Pulse of Morning”
Famous quote: ”I’ve learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel.”

Emily Dickinson
Birthplace: Amherst, Massachusetts
Famous poem: “‘Hope’ is the thing with feathers”
Famous quote: “Hope is the thing with feathers that perches in the soul — and sings the tunes without the words — and never stops at all.”

Shel Silverstein
Birthplace: Chicago
Famous poem: “Where the Sidewalk Ends”
Famous quote: ”What I do is good. I wouldn’t let it out if I didn’t think it was.”

Robert Frost
Birthplace: San Francisco
Famous poem: “The Road Not Taken”
Famous quote: “The woods are lovely, dark and deep. But I have promises to keep, and miles to go before I sleep.”

Pablo Neruda
Birthplace: Parral, Chile
Famous poem: “I Do Not Love You Except Because I Love You”
Famous quote: “To feel the love of people whom we love is a fire that feeds our life.”

E. E. Cummings
Birthplace: Cambridge, Massachusetts
Famous poem: “i carry your heart with me”
Famous quote: “It takes courage to grow up and become who you really are.”

Langston Hughes
Birthplace: Joplin, Missouri
Famous poem: “I Too Sing America”
Famous quote: “Hold fast to dreams for if dreams die, life is a broken winged bird that cannot fly.”

Walt Whitman
Birthplace: Long Island, New York
Famous poem: “I Hear America Singing”
Famous quote: “Either define the moment or the moment will define you.”

Thomas Hardy
Birthplace: Dorset, England
Famous poem: “Hap”
Famous quote: “The main object of religion is not to get a man into heaven, but to get heaven into him.”

Rudyard Kipling
Birthplace: Bombay Presidency, British India
Famous poem: “Gunga Din”
Famous quote: “We have forty million reasons for failure, but not a single excuse.”

Oscar Wilde
Birthplace: Dublin, Ireland
Famous poem: “A Vision”
Famous quote: “I have the simplest tastes. I am always satisfied with the best.”

John Keats
Birthplace: London
Famous poem: “A Thing of Beauty (Endymion)”
Famous quote: “A thing of beauty is a joy forever; its loveliness increases; it will never pass into nothingness.”

Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Birthplace: Durham, England
Famous poem: “How Do I Love Thee?”
Famous quote: “If you desire faith, then you have faith enough.”

William Blake
Birthplace: London
Famous poem: “The Tyger”
Famous quote: “The glory of Christianity is to conquer by forgiveness.”

Sylvia Plath
Birthplace: Boston
Famous poem: “Daddy”
Famous quote: “Everything in life is writable about if you have the outgoing guts to do it and the imagination to improvise.”

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Birthplace: Portland, Maine
Famous poem: “The Song of Hiawatha”
Famous quote: “Give what you have. To someone, it may be better than you dare to think.”

William Wordsworth
Birthplace: Cumberland, England
Famous poem: “The Prelude”
Famous quote: “Fill your paper with the breathings of your heart.”

Mark Twain
Birthplace: Florida, Missouri
Famous poem: “Ode to Stephen Dowling Bots, Dec’d.”
Famous quote: “Kindness is the language which the deaf can hear and the blind can see.”

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Birthplace: Boston
Famous poem: “Uriel”
Famous quote: “A hero is no braver than an ordinary man, but he is braver five minutes longer.”

John Donne
Birthplace: London
Famous poem: “No Man Is An Island”
Famous quote: “Any man’s death diminishes me, because I am involved in Mankind; And therefore never send to know for whom the bell tolls; it tolls for thee.”

W.B. Yeats
Birthplace: County Dublin, Ireland
Famous poem: “The Second Coming”
Famous quote: “Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire.”

Lord Byron
Birthplace: London
Famous poem: “She Walks in Beauty”
Famous quote: “There is no instinct like that of the heart.”

Lewis Carroll
Birthplace: Cheshire, England
Famous poem: “Jabberwocky”
Famous quote: “It is one of the great secrets of life that those things which are most worth doing, we do for others.”

Alfred, Lord Tennyson
Birthplace: Lincolnshire, England
Famous poem: “The Charge of the Light Brigade”
Famous quote: “‘Tis better to have loved and lost Than never to have loved at all.”

Dante Alighieri
Birthplace: Florence, Italy
Famous poem: “Divine Comedy”
Famous quote: “Consider your origin; you were not born to live like brutes, but to follow virtue and knowledge.”

T.S. Eliot
Birthplace: St. Louis
Famous poem: “The Waste Land”
Famous quote: “Friendship should be more than biting time can sever.”

Ezra Pound
Birthplace: Hailey, Idaho
Famous poem: “Hugh Selwyn Mauberley”
Famous quote: “With one day’s reading a man may have the key in his hands.”

John Milton
Birthplace: London
Famous poem: “Paradise Lost”
Famous quote: “A good book is the precious lifeblood of a master spirit.”

Sappho
Birthplace: Lesbos, Greece
Famous poem: “Sappho 31”
Famous quote: “What is beautiful is good, and who is good will soon be beautiful.”

Homer
Birthplace: Smyrna (present-day Greece)
Famous poem: “The Iliad”
Famous quote: “Evil deeds do not prosper; the slow man catches up with the swift.”

Li Bai
Birthplace: Tang Empire (present-day Kyrgyzstan)
Famous poem: “Quiet Night Thought”
Famous quote: “We sit together, the mountain and me, until only the mountain remains.”

Jalal al-Din Rumi
Birthplace: Khorasan (present-day Afghanistan)
Famous poem: “Masnavi-ye Ma’navi (Spiritual Verses)”
Famous quote: “Raise your words, not voice. It is rain that grows flowers, not thunder.”