Name some famous poets and their poems.
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.���