His name refers to the feat of having learned the Koran by heart. The intimations of divinity in this short poem are apt because Hafiz was a devotee of Sufism, a mystical form of Islam that speaks ...

A week ago, I had a column titled Poems by Heart. The column drew responses from ... Mark Helprin, novelist, short-story writer, journalist: When I was a kid, I had an extraordinary memory ...

What to say, when the beauty of waking in your lover’s arms fills you with delirious joy or when your heart is shattered ... foggy day? Poetry. Reading it can offer inspiration and solace ...

This is a short poem with immeasurable ... In “Beat, Old Heart,” he urges his spirits forward in the face of life, using different metaphors that bring this poem very close to being about ...

Brad Leithauser likes to look for poetry in graveyards. A novelist and poet himself, there's something he values greatly in tombstone epitaphs: brevity. "You really don't want to go on at great ...

Hence the title: "Poems to Learn By Heart." "It was a combination of remembering my own childhood and thinking about gifts I'd been given," she said in an interview last week at her husband's ...

You might have memorised and performed a poem in class before. This is called learning a poem ‘off by heart ... Watch this short clip for some tips on how to memorise a poem effectively.

“L’infinito” is something like Italy’s national poem. Everyone knows it, or a great many know it. Know it by heart. Memorizing the poem is part of growing up Italian. “L’infinito” is ...