Articles about poetry and how it can inspire and enrich our lives.
“I love the stillness of early summer evenings downtown … the entire stretch along the quiet docks all of this comforts me with sadness when on these evenings I enter the solitude of their ensemble,” Fernando Pessoa wrote while finding calm amid uncertainty and disquiet. “In this moment of seeing, I suddenly find myself isolated, … Read more
Human civilization is an elaborate, symbolic defense mechanism against the knowledge of our own mortality. That’s what American cultural anthropologist Ernest Becker argued in his Pulitzer-winning book “The Denial of Death.” But unlike our denial of death, our consciousness of death is a powerful life-affirming force that can help us change the way we live … Read more
Robert Frost (March 26, 1874–January 29, 1963) is perhaps one of the few American poets who needs no introduction. Author of many enduring and iconic poems in American letters, he continues to enrich and ennoble our literary lives. But few of us know that behind the public persona of a celebrated poet and winner of … Read more
. Yes, money can provide you with comfortable living conditions. No, money can’t make you happy. You don’t even need to read a scientific study to know it’s true. All you need to do is look at the richest men and women in the world, and it will become abundantly clear that money failed to … Read more