Author, poet, and philosopher David Whyte reflects on the power of words and explores why accepting and celebrating the human condition is such a gift.

Yet this abundant joy seems always tempered by that constant reminder of time and mortality so prevalent in McDonald’s poetry. Youthful revelry and celebration are balanced in these poems by ...

The poems that speak to us so strongly that we return to them in times of confusion, fear, loneliness or joy. Some of us might choose to scribble a couple of lines on a Post It and stick it to the ...