A framed poster of a stamp depicting Langston Hughes, who wrote some of the best poems in American history. Poetry provides the perfect way to indulge in the escapism of reading without the commitment ...

Hundreds of millions of poetic words have been written throughout history. Navigate your way into this beautiful art form with this list of the most famous poems ever written. What jumps into your ...

Maya Angelou, considered one of the best poets in history, signs copies of "Maya Angelou: Letter to My Daughter" at Barnes & Noble in Union Square on October 30, 2008 in New York City. Poetry is a ...

William Blake’s “The Clod & the Pebble” is a dialogue on tenderness and cruelty in three short stanzas. Read it with our critic A.O. Scott, and then play a game to memorize it.

Long-distance relationships can be a challenge. You're in love for a reason, after all, and when you're apart, the distance can fill you with longing. Our long-distance relationship poems capture ...

The plight of Pierre, &c. Up north and down here, &c. 9/11 as ‘inside job,’ &c. Audio By Carbonatix Memorized any poems lately? It’s a worthy exercise, often a pleasure. I have never been much of a ...

THE odd impersonality of W. H. Auden always gives his poetry, even when he shows the deepest insight into the human heart, an air of strangeness. It was this too which made him seem strange to his ...

The quote "Love is recognizing a connection, wisdom is understanding the connection" is attributed to John Welwood. It has been quoted numerous times in various publications searching for the meaning ...

Robert Frost presented himself as a simple man. Not for him the literary circles of London or the stilted dinner parties of Brahmin Boston. Nor was he at home in academia. He dropped out of college ...

Shall I compare thee to a summer’s day? Thou art more lovely and more temperate: Rough winds do shake the darling buds of May, And summer’s lease hath all too short a date; Sometime too hot the eye of ...