So where should you start for the best poems about life and all its ups and downs? Make your way through this list, and you’ll find yourself 20 poems richer. These aren’t just any poems either ...

This poem embodies that sort of intense, fleeting crush you get on someone that feels as though you know them from a past life. You know nothing about them, only what you imagine them to be like.

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Rhaid cyflythrennu ac odli. He’s a Welshman through and through. DAN That’s the best poem ever. KASIA I disagree. In my opinion, it’s a poor poem. It doesn’t rhyme. And it’s not true.

Sometimes seen as the stuff of commencement addresses, his poems are hard to pin down—just like the man behind them.

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Pulitzer Prize-winning author James Agee is best known for his novels and screenplays, but a new volume from The Works of James Agee series restores his reputation as a poet.