Art can help us make sense of the world, and these moving poems about life offer a better understanding of the ups and downs ...

It’s one of those classic short poems about life that can change the way you think. Beautiful, also, are the souls of my people. One of America’s most famous poets, Langston Hughes was a key ...

Hundreds of millions of poetic words have been written throughout history. Navigate your way into this beautiful art form ...

Inspirational poems are like love poems written for life itself. Ahead ... Is but a passing stain. This is a short poem with immeasurable depth. In “War,” Leslie Coulson writes about our ...

This Be The Verse by Philip Larkin: When you buy through links on kottke.org, I may earn an affiliate commission. Thanks for supporting the site! They fuck you up, your mum and dad. They may not mean ...

Some poems are long and densely packed with meaning, but others are like snapshots written to save an image, idea or scene, ...

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I’ll pick a short one – Catullus ... which is that I am not naturally drawn to love poems, but rather to poems about love gone wrong (I doubt I’m alone in this). Something in me resists ...

Dana Perino answers questions about her new book, "I Wish Someone Had Told Me … The Best Advice for Building a Great Career and a Meaningful Life." Why did you write the book? When my mom ...