The public are being urged to choose between two quotes from three former makars – with the most popular to be carved into ...

Nevertheless, for this poem, and for the first time in his career, Frost got paid—$15, by the editor of a New York weekly ...

The origins of the phrase date all the way back to 1400, when the Medieval poem “Roman de la rose” (“Romance of the Rose”) used the phrase “right as an adamant,” referring to a diamond or lodestone. A ...

Quotes about nature There’s a reason nature has inspired scores of poems, songs, and beautiful words—it’s pretty darn ...

Housing the world’s largest public collection of modern poetry, we are the National Poetry Library; free to join across the UK, and London’s only space dedicated to poetry study. Founded by the Arts ...

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