The great poem of John Donne's.

But what if they were poems and psalms?

Until you read the whole psalm, the whole chapter.

I think of all the poetry that I've read about romantic love, what sums it up best is something that is said by Plato, over 2,000 years ago.

The Satanic Verses by Salman Rushdie is a real masterpiece of modern literature.

There's a chapter in the Bible called Psalm 72, and it's Solomon's prayer for more influence.

The next poem is called forgetfulness, and it's really just a kind of poetic essay on the subject of mental slippage.

A poetic image for a story on Tolstoy, by Sam Abell.

I decided to write a piece for choir a couple of years later as a gift to this conductor who had changed my life.

Netanyahu thinks that he can build a fence and let the problem simply fester forever. But one should heed the words of Langston Hughes famous poem, which became a refrain of the US civil rights movement.

Over again and again in the Psalms, which Gladstone said was the greatest book in the world, David describes the evils of the human race.

A friend of mine sent me something called a hip hop bible, where the twenty third Psalm is rendered as, The Lord is all that, as opposed to what I knew it as, The Lord is my shepherd.

In this deeply personal talk, Nigerian writer Chris Abani says that what we know about how to be who we are comes from stories. He searches for the heart of Africa through its poems and narrative, including his own.

And the beauty of this, in perhaps 50 years, 60 years, we can finish completely this civilization, and offer to our children the possibility to invent a new story, a new poetry, a new romanticism.

And then there was the language, the rhythmic cadence of it, reminding me of evenings spent listening to Bedouin elders recite hours long narrative poems entirely from memory.

Poems. I have to write poems.

I am looking down on Central Park and recall from half a century ago in a small town in Northern Romania a tall, white haired man proclaiming his poem, The Colors Red and Black. Gazing over the park, I remember those Stalinist era verses

Spoken word poetry is the art of performance poetry.

As I looked at this list to me it was sort of like a psalm book of living I realized, we may have done it for our girls, but it really changed us.

David Macaulay relives the winding and sometimes surreal journey toward the completion of Rome Antics, his illustrated homage to the historic city.

Li Bai's work is the most famous of Chinese poetry.

A focus on the literary work of elderly persons that records their invaluable experience and expertise and expresses what they have undergone in various literary forms, such as the short story, the novel, plays, poetry, etc.

I started with a poem, I'll end with one.

Poetry.

I tell people it involves creating poetry that doesn't just want to sit on paper, that something about it demands it be heard out loud or witnessed in person.

Ralph Waldo Emerson described language as fossil poetry.

China has many great poets, but we discovered that in the People's Republic public school curriculum, they have three fairy tales by An Tu Sheng, or Hans Christian Anderson, as we call him.

Same with this it's a movie review, an art review, a book review where the reading is in case you want to go.

I want to end with a poem by an American poet called Lucille Clifton.

And Dad would read poetry to us. So I always liked it.

And in terms of the line of poetry, why does the poet use the word hare rather than rabbit?

There's a poem written by a very famous English poet at the end of the 19th century.

I wrote a long paper on this.

Poetry does that.

Marcus A modern day poet.

The Poetry of the Euro

And it goes like this. It's by a guy called Yuan Chen I cannot bear to put away the bamboo sleeping mat.

This is the opening of a beautiful novel by Jose Saramago called Seeing.

It is a dream come true to be part of this choir, as I've never been part of one.

You don't write a psalm.

And here's her poem.

Allen is a poet.

Poetry matters.

It's a longer poem.

And the choir conductor there knew that I sang and invited me to come and join the choir.