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"IF", a poem by Rudyard Kipling, is a timeless gem that recently reemerged in popular culture when it was put to music in a 2007 Joni Mitchell release. In the poem, a father gives advice to his son.

Dante's Divine Comedy is considered to be not only the most important epic poem in Italian literature, but also one of the greatest poems ever written. It consists of 100 cantos, and (after an introductory canto) they are divided into three sections. Each section is 33 cantos in length, and they describe how Dante and a guide travel through Inferno, Purgatorio, and Paradiso.

A classic in the Bukowski poetry canon, Love Is a Dog from Hell is a raw, lyrical, exploration of the exigencies, heartbreaks, and limits of love. A book that captures the Dirty Old Man of American letters at his fiercest and most vulnerable, on a subject that hits home with all of us. Charles...

শ্রীজাত বন্দোপাধ্যায়ের ফেসবুক এর পোস্টগুলি আমাদের সকলেরই খুবই প্রিয়। কবিতা, ছোট গল্প, কোনো ঘটনা, সবই ওনার জীবনের ছন্দে বাঁধা অভিব্যক্তি। কবিতার পাশাপাশি গদ্য লেখা শ্রীজাত-র পুরোনো অভ্যাস। কখনো স্মৃতি, কখনো স্বপ্ন থেকে থেকে সেই সব গদ্য লেখা। শুনুন ফেসবুক প্রোফাইল থেকে বাছাই করা গদ্য, শ্রীজাত বন্দোপাধ্যায়েরই কণ্ঠে, শুধুমাত্র স্টোরিটেল-এ!

Having spent ten years fighting in the Trojan War, Odysseus embarks on his journey back to Ithica. To get there he must deceive a giant Cyclops, face Poseidon’s wrath, escape cannibalism, defeat the witch-goddess Circe, skirt the land of the Sirens, sail between a six-headed monster and a raging whirlpool, and escape captivity on the island of Calypso. But perhaps his biggest threat is his prolonged absence from home, as 108 suitors are vying for his wife’s hand in marriage.

“Probably the most finely accomplished and ... most enduring" translation (Los Angeles Times Book Review) of this essential work of world literature—from a renowned scholar and master teacher of Dante and an accomplished poet. “The Hollanders … act as latter-day Virgils, guiding us...

This book revolves around the life of renowned Indian Urdu poet and lyricist of films in Hindi, Majrooh Sultanpuri. This book describes his life and career as an Urdu poet, lyricist, and songwriter in the Hindi film industry. He has written lyrics for a number of Hindi–Urdu soundtracks. He was one of the most dominant figures in Indian Urdu poetry and is still considered to be one of the finest avant-garde poets of 20th-century Urdu literature.

अहमद फ़राज़ आज के सबसे लोकप्रिय शायर हैं। उन्हें जीते-जी ऐसी शोहरत मिली है कि आज हिंदुस्तान और पाकिस्तान में फ़राज़ साहब की ग़ज़लों और नज़्मों को बड़े शौक से पढ़ा और सुना जाता है। 'ये मेरी ग़ज़लें, 'ये मेरी नज़्में' की विशेषता यह है कि इसमें खुद फ़राज़ साहब ने अपनी मनपसंद बेहतरीन ग़ज़लों और नज़्मों का चयन किया है। अहमद फ़राज़ की शोहरत ने जब अपने गिर्द एक ऐसा प्रभामंडल पैदा कर लिया जिसमें उनके एक इंक़लांबी रूमानी शायर की छवि चस्पां है। अपने मुल्क में उन्होंने जेलें भी काटी हैं।

Ahmed Faraz is considered one of the greatest modern Urdu poets of the last century. Essentially a romantic poet, steeped in classical Persian and Urdu traditions, he combined the sensitivity and lyricism of the great Urdu poet Meer Taqi Meer and the philosophical range and depth of Mirza Ghalib, his poetry also reflected a progressive outlook. He is often compared to Faiz Ahmed Faiz for his simple style of writing because of which he became popular among common readers and connoisseurs of urdu poetry.

Ceremony is a collection for those on the cusp of becoming. It is a reminder that we were not meant to fit into this world perfectly, but to live in such a way that might forge a path all our own. It is a reminder that we are one with each other and nature itself. It is a reminder that we contain within us the latent potential of every future possibility we can conceive of. It is a reminder that we often must release what is not ours in order to receive what is, that we are all born with a unique imprint to leave upon the world, and that self-love is not an infatuation, but a homecoming.

In this audiobook Maria Popova, creator of The Marginalian, presents a celebration of the human search for truth and beauty through the lenses of science and poetry. Poetry and science, as Popova writes in her introduction, "are instruments for knowing the world more intimately and loving it...

धरती और आकाश की तरह, अग्नि और वर्षा की तरह, प्रेम और करुणा की तरह , गाँव और नगर की तरह केदारनाथ सिंह की कविता में शब्द और अर्थ हैं. उनके अपने शब्दों में वह काशी की तरह है, सभ्यता की स्मृति, उसका जीवन और उसकी समीक्षा. ज्ञानपीठ पुरस्कार से सम्मानित और देश विदेश की अनेक भाषाओं में अनूदित केदारनाथ सिंह भारतीय सभ्यता और काव्य का उजला नक्षत्र है.

मधुकलश की भूमिका में बच्चन जी ने लिखा है, "ये कविताएं सन् 1935-36 में लिखी गईं और सर्वप्रथम 1937 में प्रकाशित हुईं। इसके पहले मधुशाला 1935 में और मधुबाला 1936 में प्रकाशित हो चुकी थीं। मेरे जीवन का जो उत्साह, उल्लास और उन्माद-गो उनमें एक अभाव, एक असन्तोष, एक निराशा की व्यथा भी घुली-मिली थी-मधुशाला और मधुबाला में व्यक्त हुआ था, वह अब उतार पर था।“ आगे लिखते हैं, "ये कविताएं जीवन के रस से खाली नहीं हैं और जीवन का रस मधु ही मधु नहीं होता, कटु भी होता है... समर्थ के हाथों अमृत भी बनता है।"

A Poet's Guidance for the Practice of True Self-Expression All spiritual traditions affirm that fully participating in our own life is what allows us to find our place in the fullness and beauty of the world. As such, holding nothing back is less a forceful act of will and more a surrender into...

The poems of the Poetic Edda have waited a long time for a modern English translation that would do them justice. Here it is at last (Odin be praised!) and well worth the wait. These amazing texts from a 13th-century Icelandic manuscript are of huge historical, mythological, and literary importance, containing the lion's share of information that survives today about the gods and heroes of pre-Christian Scandinavians, their unique vision of the beginning and end of the world, etc.

Along the centuries numerous interpretations and definitions of Sufism have waxed and waned but the undeniable beauty of their verse in its myriad of forms including the musical Ghazal (love song), Masnavi (narrative) and Rubai (quatrain) always remains. Our chronological volume of the classic Sufi poets helps us understand the spiritual direction of Sufism, starting with Rabia in the 8th century through to Khwaja Ghulam Farid over a thousand years later.

Who Says, only few Marathi poets write romantic poems? Listen to this collection of fresh romantic poems with a bit of Tadka from Mrudul in her own husky voice and get Romantic this winter. Collection of fresh new Marathi Poems.

Kitaab ‘svaad zaindagee kaa’ shruti sukumaar dvaaraa rachit kavitaa_on kaa snkalan hai. Ye kavitaa_en yathaarth jeevan par aadhaarit sakaaraatmak soch vaalee kavitaa_en hain. Nakaaraatmak vichaaron ko sakaaraatmak soch men badalanaa aasaan naheen hai lekin kavayitree apane shabdon ke chayan men sahaj hain v vah ise prastut karane men safal huii hain.

A audiobook of twenty-six poetic essays written in English, Kahlil Gibran’s Devdoot is full of religious inspirations. With the twelve illustrations drawn by the author himself, the book took more than eleven years to be formulated and perfected and is Gibran’s best-known work. It represents the height of his literary career as he came to be noted as 'the Bard of Washington Street.' Captivating and vivified with feeling, Devdoot has been translated into forty languages throughout the world, and is considered the most widely read book of the twentieth century.

Gautam Rajrishi - a name that has emerged as a refreshing change in modern poetry of Hindi literature. Who would have imagined that a serving colonel of Indian army would introduce us to a new style of Ghazals? And that is precisely what he does, with ease and panache...dismantling all the stereotyped images we have harbored in our minds. He picks up his words from our daily life, giving them a sublime bliss that we have never seen before in Ghazals.