Poetry For Beginners
January 19, 2010 Paperback and eBook Series: For Beginners Publisher: For Beginners Now in a second printing!
"Be patient towards all that is unsolved in your heart and try to love the questions themselves. Live the questions now...Resolve to be always beginning—to be a beginner."
—Rainer Maria Rilke
Poetry is how millions of people across time have used language to try to better understand love, hate, war, oppression, joy, sorrow, and more. From ancient Greece to the present, Poetry For Beginners traces the wonders of the written word and shows how it is relevant in daily life.