instruction: Name some famous poets and their poems.
response: 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.”