Billionaire Warren Buffett, the Oracle of Omaha, once gave this advice to worried investors: Read a poem. But not just any poem. It had to be Rudyard Kipling’s “If” — the 1896 classic that ...

Billionaire Warren Buffett, the Oracle of Omaha, once gave this advice to worried investors: Read a poem. But not just any poem. It had to be Rudyard Kipling’s “If” — the 1896 classic that ...

Our critic A.O. Scott walks you through a poem that speaks to his mood right now. It’s called “Party Politics,” but it’s not about those parties, or those politics.

Our critic A.O. Scott marvels at the power and paradox of a sonnet by Gwendolyn Brooks. Isabella Cotier By A.O. Scott Here’s a poem about patience, about self-control, about the need to conserve ...

Follow these steps toward complete forgiveness.I agree the poem is a treasure. It was written by a former assistant United Nations secretary-general who passed away in 2010 at the age of 87. His ...

For NPR's series "Picture This," illustrator Carson Ellis talks about working with author Susan Cooper to make Cooper's poem "Shortest Day" into a children's book. (This story first aired on ...