The World Day of Poetry 2021

Background Of World Day Of Poetry:

The World Day of Poetry, held every year on 21 March, honors one of humanity’s most precious means of cultural and linguistic language and identity. Practiced across history – throughout every society and on every continent – poetry appeals to our universal humanity and our mutual values, converting the simplest of poems into a powerful catalyst for debate and peace.

Some Best Quotes By Poets On Poetry:

1. Always be a poet, even in prose. ~Charles Baudelaire
2. Poets are shameless with their experiences: they exploit them. ~Friedrich Nietzsche
3. A poem begins as a lump in the throat, a sense of wrong, a homesickness, a lovesickness. ~Robert Frost
4. You must have a certain amount of maturity to be a poet. Seldom do sixteen-year-olds know themselves well enough. ~Erica Jong
5. The poet is the priest of the invisible. ~Wallace Stevens
6. Poetry might be defined as the clear expression of mixed feelings. ~W.H. Auden
7. If I feel physically as if the top of my head were taken off, I know that is poetry. –Emily Dickinson
8. All bad poetry springs from genuine feeling. ~Oscar Wilde
   

The Iconic Poems in the English Language:

1.William Carlos Williams, “The Red Wheelbarrow”

2.T. S. Eliot, “The Waste Land”

3.Robert Frost, “The Road Not Taken”

4.Gwendolyn Brooks, “We Real Cool”

5.Elizabeth Bishop, “One Art”

6.Langston Hughes, “Harlem”

7.Sylvia Plath, “Daddy”

8.Robert Hayden, “Middle Passage“