World Poetry Day
22 Mar
In celebration of World Poetry Day, here’s a compilation of our favorite poetry quotes from famous poets. They center on different emotions and life experiences - such as femininity, romance, heartbreak, love, loss, pain and hope. "You may shoot me with your words, you may cut me with your eyes, you may kill me with…
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It was Williams Wordsworth, one of the finest Romantic poets, that gave poetry one of its most popular definitions. Poetry is "the spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings: it takes its origin from emotion recollected in tranquillity," the pastoral poet wrote in the preface to his Lyrical Ballads. While that definition may not capture all that…
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Tomorrow, March 21 is UNESCO’s World Poetry Day. In the world over, bookies will be celebrating the event with some reading, writing and poetry performances.
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On World Poetry Day, March 21, 2017, Ibadan had an indelible literary event in celebration of Prof. Niyi Osundare, who recently turned 70.
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When I was about thirteen I memorized my first real poem. It was “Nothing Gold Can Stay,” by Robert Frost. I loved the melodic sound of the words as they slipped from my mouth, sliding in rhyme against one another.
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