Absolute Solitude: Selected Poems by Dulce María Loynaz, translated from the Spanish by James O’Connor, Archipelago Books, 263 pages One popular Spanish language course teaches phrases such as: ...

With “Poem of the Day,” The New York Sun offers a daily portion of verse selected by the Sun’s poetry editor, Joseph Bottum of Dakota State University, with the help of the North Carolina poet, Sally ...

The movie Paterson revolves around a poet in love with his work and the world around him We fell in love under a moonless sky. The stars were few, but the sky was wide, free, unchained, and I was ...

The solitude that Harold Monro (1879-1932) describes here in such a moderate, calm way seems more akin to emotional loss than mere aloneness. Though his own Collected Poems, published in 1933, were ...

with all its fruitless longings. Our wanderings are always with the moon. And in this long journey to death I have come to know that home is another illusion born out of those moments when we were ...

From the multitudes beneath him. Yes, the time is ripe for sublimation ...

A video which combines the poem by Fernando Pessoa with climbing, interpreted by Lavarda for the Red Bull project Poets in Action. The poem "Na imensa solidao" was written by Fernando Pessoa. It is ...

‘Songs of Solitude’ is a collection of 21 poems by first-time author Harini Ramesh, covering topics ranging from dreams, motivation, getting hurt, failure, sorrow, heartbreak, hope, and healing. “We ...

On February 25, 1883, 140 years ago, The New York Sun published a poem by Ella Wheeler Wilcox (1850–1919). She called it “The Way of the World,” but we at the Sun retitled it “Solitude,” sent her $5, ...

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