It’s been said that “To love is to suffer. To avoid suffering one must not love. But then one suffers from not loving.” Truer ...

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Inspirational poems are like love poems written for life itself ... has a long way to go before she finds her wings. how much a god, how much a human. I call on you to live the will to love.

My view is this: I don’t think God is love. I think Love is God. When I posted this view online to see what people thought about it I was asked, “What’s the difference?” My answer was that ...

There are no revelations in Love and Need, but Plunkett excels at bringing the poems to life with contextual ... Heaven’ inverts man’s search for God into God’s pursuit of man,” Plunkett ...

In Rilke’s lines translated by Ludwig Lewisohn as “The Song of Love,” we find the suggestion of a Reality standing at an immeasurable distance from the god with the lyre. The “Great Player ...

We might even say that it is God ... love? “A total dream and a delight,” she replies. “The best job I have ever taken on! I learned so much through writing the commentaries for the poems.

NPR's Michel Martin speaks with author Reginald Dwayne Betts about his new collection of poems, "Doggerel," a meditation on family, friendship and falling in love ... My God, the ways we grieve ...

dated 5/29/22," saying love "came to him one time in the person of a girl/ and it abides in the girl’s great-grandmotherhood." Reverence for God is here too; after all, these are sabbath poems ...