You road I enter upon and look around, I believe you are not all that is here,I believe that much … More
Category: Poetry
The Lover of Che and Marx
Samudrala Avinash Rahul Vamshi KrishnaWhat a long name. Does not sound at allLike the name of someoneWho belongs to the … More
Sher of Fahmi Badayuni
pūchh lete vo bas mizāj mirākitnā āsān thā ilaaj mirāzarā īmān-dārī se batāohameñ tum se mohabbat ho ga.ī kyāvo jo … More
Lyrical Ballads by Wordsworth and Coleridge
Origins Lyrical Ballads (1798) stands as one of the most transformative publications in English literary history, marking the formal beginning … More
Extract from the 6th Letter of Rilke’s “Letters to a Young Poet”
You shall not be without a greeting from me when Christmas comes, and when you, in the midst of the … More
Rilke’s Advice to a Young Poet
This is from Rainer Maria Rilke’s Letters to a Young Poet—one of the most beautiful pieces of writing advice ever … More
I Know a Man, by Robert Creeley
Robert Frost: The Most Misread Poet in America
He is buried beneath a leaning birch tree in the Old Bennington Cemetery in Vermont. The epitaph on his gravestone … More
Much Madness is divinest Sense
By Emily Dickinson Much Madness is divinest Sense – To a discerning Eye – Much Sense – the starkest Madness – … More
Philosophers Can Learn From Poets?
Philosophy has long claimed authority over meaning by virtue of its methods: argument, abstraction, and generalisation. Poetry, by contrast, has … More