The modern world of enhanced brevity and rapidly consumed content is full of quotes by inspirational thinkers, leaders, artists, and, perhaps most notably, writers. Memorable quotes are ubiquitous on ...

Do you really know the power of your words? Even just one syllable can carry the weight of years of emotion. Good poetry transcends a simple meaning: it's universal. It's comparable to a variety of ...

Feb 23 (Reuters) - As proprietor of the landmark City Lights Bookstore in San Francisco, Lawrence Ferlinghetti was a Beat Generation poet, a publisher and a free-speech advocate. Sign up here. "I keep ...

Famous poet and playwright Joanna Baillie is the inspiration for today's Google Doodle. Baillie is best known for her works Plays on the Passions (published in three volumes between 1798 and 1812) and ...

Winter, with its quiet charm and crisp air, has long inspired poets and philosophers alike. It’s a season of reflection, ...

During sophomore year of high school, circa the rise of LiveJournal and AIM, I carried around a sheet of very crinkled, very worn piece of spiral notebook paper filled with inspirational quotes that I ...

In case you missed it: Richard Wilbur, the two-time Pulitzer Prize-winning poet, translator and lyricist died at the age of 96. Wilbur is known as one of the most preeminent poets of the 20th century, ...