"Truly fine poetry must be read aloud," said Argentine writer Jose Luis Borges. "A good poem does not allow itself to be read in a low voice or silently. If we can read it silently, it is not a ...

Each poem has been selected by an incredible woman ... Some of us are slow learners when it comes to recognising love that is nourishing and good, that smooths life’s path instead of making ...

She makes them celebrate what they just simply are. To me, this is the nature of a good poem. It can be about the saddest or most terrible events. But it can do what Aristotle said about Greek ...

Did, till we loved? were we not weaned till then? But sucked on country pleasures, childishly? Or snorted we in the Seven Sleepers' den? 'Twas so; but this, all pleasures fancies be.

People prefer AI-generated poetry to Shakespeare because it is more “beautiful” and easier to understand, a study has found.