The language of poetry is universal ... and celebrated love and friendship during that all too-short time we all have upon this earth. This is another choice that’s going to surprise absolutely ...

According to Eliot, the greatest poets, and specifically Dante, Shakespeare and Goethe, have “Abundance, Amplitude and Unity.” By abundance. Eliot means that (unlike T. S. Eliot) “they all w ...

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Poetry in the 21st ... of a safer future for us all. Merwin implores us to see that “the past is not finished / here in the present / it is awake the whole time.” The poet’s recollections ...