Like many of Shakespeare’s other works, this is a love poem for a woman or man who enriched the poet’s life. The opening ...

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even if I do. In twenty-three words, this poem tells us that life is not so much about success and failure as it is about love. Our children need the strength to go into the world and risk failure ...

Kaur’s poems are usually short and use easy-to-understand ... greatest poet of the 20th century in any language” brings love to life in all its brooding, sensual and despairing facets in ...

She had an innovative style, lived a self-imposed exile, and yet explored profound themes about love, life, and death. Here are some quotes from her poems: “To love is so startling it leaves ...

or life, too seriously. As in “Love and Other Poems,” his previous collection, Dimitrov’s man-about-town quality is on full display here, though the tone has shifted somewhat. The poems ...