Poetry is at the root of nature itself. Poetry is nature, philosophy and science are man-made. Man cries first when he is sad, after that the solution of sorrows is found. Man’s crying is poetry, ...

To begin with, poetry can never be defined either definitively or adequately. Thus, there cannot but be continuous attempts to define poetry itself. The great 19th-century French poet Paul Valery once ...

I’ve spent a great deal of time and effort studying and debating philosophy at Yale. But these endeavors have left me only with a belief in the inadequacy of philosophy and its subordination to poetry ...

John Koethe, philosophy professor and poet, lives on the East Side of Milwaukee, but he grew up in San Diego. A self-described "science whiz kid" who loved fiction, Koethe left the West Coast to ...

When Wave Books publishes Of Entirety Say the Sentence this fall, Graham Foust, a poet noted for his condensed, elliptical approach, and Samuel Frederick, a professor of German literature, will have ...

Anwar Jamal is a veteran poet. Other than that, he is also a discreet critic of literature, an imaginative visual artist, and an educationist par excellence. The aforementioned book is a collection of ...

Strauss's critique of Heidegger's philosophy aims at a recovery of political philosophy, which he saw as threatened by Heidegger's radical historicism; for Strauss, philosophy as a whole could not ...

Donelle Dreese’s 300-level poetry students convene late Thursday mornings in a dimly lit, blank-walled classroom on Northern Kentucky University’s campus. They open their notebooks and laptops and ...

I WAS in company the other day with my friend, the professor of chemistry, and, being in a reflective mood, I chanced to say, " Professor, tears are a curious thing.” “ By no means,” replied he ...