If You Want a Heavenly Romance, Reach for the Divine
You may or may not share Dante’s religious convictions, but perhaps you can relate to the notion that romantic love at its ...
How Indian classical dance celebrates love
On Valentine’s Day, four classical dancers — Navia Natarajan, N. Srikanth, Divya Devaguptapu and Amrita Lahiri write about ...
Eight of the most romantic poems to read to your love this Valentine’s Day
Closely aligned to the theme of romantic love is that of desire, and across the centuries poets have written about the torture of yearning. The Greek poet Sappho knew this even 2,600 years ago. Women ...
lookout7h
Happy Valentine’s Day, Santa Cruz: Let’s celebrate with poems of love – and an experiment
What better time than stormy February to celebrate the richness of Santa Cruz’s literary community? What better time to read poetry than a stormy day amid political upheaval? Here, Lookout launches an ...
Indulgexpress on MSN8h
Valentine’s Day 2025: Celebrities from Hyderabad tell us what love means to them
Love is complex’ There are films, books, poems and songs about love but nobody has been able to completely define love. When I met my wife, with every passing day I fell more in love with her. After I ...
Try this one way to build better relationships, according to science
Gratitude is a social glue and buffer against taking your loved one for granted. If we aren’t careful, we may come to take ...
KPBS20h
The power of one: Why loving yourself is enough for true happiness
Kari de Burgh's journey to self-love transformed her outlook on life, helping her embrace inner peace, gratitude and the ...
Psychology Today22h
Sharing Without Losing: The Abundance of Love and Trust
Some instances in life are zero-sum—there can only be one winner or recipient. Children and adults do not view social ...
MyNorthwest.com1d
Martyrs? Bacchanalia? Chaucer? Delving into the murky origins of Valentine’s Day
Bearing cards, flowers, chocolates and poetry, lovers have always swooned on Valentine’s Day as cherubs circled overhead.
Emirates News Agency on MSN2d
19th Sharjah Nabati Poetry Festival concludes in Kalba
The 19th Sharjah Nabati Poetry Festival concluded on Monday at the Cultural Centre in Kalba City in Sharjah, in the presence of Sheikh Saeed bin Saqr bin Sultan Al Qasimi, Deputy Chairman of the Amiri ...
The Paris Review2d
The Image of the Doll: Tove Ditlevsen’s Worn-Out Language
If we read Ditlevsen’s poems through the lens of Lessing, you could say that Ditlevsen’s so-called sentimentality is a poetic anachronism that functions as a subversive tool, an anachronism on a par ...
NKyTribune4d
Sunday read: What’s love got to do with it? How we think about Valentine’s Day can change the world
By Jeff Rubin Special to NKyTribune Over 140 million Americans spent some $25.8 billion on Valentine’s Day gifts in 2024. On ...