WORLD POETRY DAY

 World Poetry Day is widely known each year on March twenty one. it's the occasion to honor poets, revive oral traditions of poetry recitals, promote the reading, writing, and teaching of poetry, foster the convergence between poetry and different arts like theatre, dance, music, and painting, and lift the visibility of poetry within the media.

World Poetry Day celebrates one in all humanity’s most wanted styles of cultural and linguistic expression and identity. Practiced throughout history in each culture and on each continent poetry speaks to our common humanity and our shared values, remodeling the only of poems into a robust catalyst for dialogue and peace.

Background

UNESCO decided to celebrate 21 March as World Poetry Day throughout its thirtieth General Conference in Paris in 1999, with the aim of supporting linguistic diversity through poetic expression and increasing the chance for vulnerable languages to be detected.

One of the objectives of the Day is to support linguistic diversity through poetic expression and to supply endangered languages the opportunity to be heard inside their communities.

  Modesty is a virtue not often found among poets, for almost every one of them thinks himself the greatest in the world. 

~Miguel de Cervantes

All bad poetry springs from genuine feeling. 

~Oscar Wilde

 Poetry is the rhythmical creation of beauty in words. 

~Edgar Allan Poe

  I consider myself a poet first and a musician second. I live like a poet and I’ll die like a poet. 

~Bob Dylan

Poetry is what in a poem makes you laugh, cry, prickle, be silent, makes your toe nails twinkle, makes you want to do this or that or nothing, makes you know that you are alone in the unknown world, that your bliss and suffering is forever shared and forever all your own. 

~Dylan Thomas

Always be a poet, even in prose.

 ~Charles Baudelaire

Celebrate the poetry with this poem written by Maya Angelou. Listen it and practice it!