Poems don’t give you news, they give you inspiration. Poems don’t give you knowledge, they heighten your sensitivity. Poems don’t give you information, they increase your empathy.

She is a proud Motswana woman and every chance she gets she sings the praises of her people in her mother tongue. Praise poetry, referred to as Diboko in Sesotho and Izibongo in isiZulu, is a renowned ...

In 1994, Australian poet Dorothy Porter published a book unlike ... Porter used "the objects of her love … [as] the source of her creative inspiration," McSkimming writes.

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Maybe that’s why poetry has even taken over TikTok. But if you need a quick-acting dose of inspiration, the short poems in this collection have just what you’re looking for. In a couple of min ...

An actor, playwright and poet, his works changed the way in which people thought ... leader on this list but the fourteenth Dalai Lama has earned his title as a true inspiration thanks to his ...

We were looking for poetry that had struck its readers, for whatever reasons, as unforgettable, enduring, and influential: ...

Hesiod was an ancient Greek poet whose epic work Theogony elevated him to the status of Homer and is "a major source on Greek ...

Harry Cluff on the debts owed by Wallace Stevens, William Carlos Williams & Rainer Maria Rilke to the painter.

“Poetry is the art of compression, of saying in a few well-chosen words, enhanced with rhythm and musicality of language what ...