1. Lovingreading or loving-reading (a double verb, conjugated as transitive, where what one loves-reads is someone or something, Lysias or the book). 2. Loving reading (in which case, it is reading ...

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Love is what makes your cell phone ding every time I send you a message. 17. The world would be meaningless without you.

Nothing New,” which the American poet wrote in 1918, is published for the first time in The New Yorker’s Anniversary Issue.

Valentine's Day is a time for poetry, to speak of love and how romance and relationships change and deepen over time. Elders ...

In the 1953 film Roman Holiday, Audrey Hepburn and Gregory Peck's characters visit The Mouth of Truth, an ancient sculpture in Rome. "The legend is that if you're given to lying, you put your hand in ...

Love is one of the deepest and most universal human experiences. Throughout history, it has inspired countless works of art, ...

Learning the love languages of you and your partner can be a great way to create meaningful connections between you. Do you have a friend who says they’d take a clean kitchen over flowers any ...

Amanda Gorman was just 22 when her inaugural poem, “The Hill We Climb”, read ... asked “What if the mightiest word is love?”, recasting the idea of national fraternity as “love that ...

By Karl Kirchwey Karl Kirchwey’s eighth book of poems, “Good Apothecary,” will be published this year. He teaches in the M.F.A. program in creative writing at Boston University, where he ...

Our columnist approves. By Elisa Gabbert Elisa Gabbert’s collections of poetry and essays include, most recently, “Normal Distance” and “Any Person Is the Only Self.” Her On Poetry ...