A week ago, I had a column titled Poems by Heart. The column drew responses from many readers, which I will publish in due course. (Thank you, by the way — thank you for those responses.) ...

Snippets of poetry have provided writer Irene Latham enough wisdom to fill a book. She shares several in this week's column.

To learn a poem by heart is, as Michael Gove put it when he was education secretary, “To own a great work of art forever”. The young Patrick Leigh Fermor, walking across Europe, recited poetry aloud.

In my classes, I encourage my students to learn poems by heart - a challenge they initially find strange. In a modern age where information is readily available, the idea of memorising poetry may ...

today’s young Soviet poets often know Mandelstam’s poems by heart, and many worship his memory. Mr. Lowell’s adaptations are based on close prose translations which I worked out for him.

While everything else about school faded away, segments of poems I once drank in as nectar in English class still float into ...

I can turn I hope with a loving heart and say hello to eternity. Bill Scott is a retired Rochester resident. The Post Bulletin publishes poetry by local and area writers every Tuesday. Send poems ...

The poetry is part of a six-month-long public art initiative befittingly called “Heart on Your Sleeve.” “We just wanted to have that moment of surprise, delight, and poetry in people’s hands as they ...

THIS is, as we might expect from its compiler, a fascinating, wide-ranging, and, in many ways, surprising anthology of poetry written in the past 100 years, which does indeed “search the heart” and ...

My son must have known that poem by heart in minutes, but he loved holding the book, carrying it with him on public transport. After a day of being told he was less than his peers, he relished ...

“L’infinito” is something like Italy’s national poem. Everyone knows it, or a great many know it. Know it by heart.