Be nails. Be teeth. Be lightning. C.D. Wright has published 13 collections of poetry and prose. “Re: Happiness, in pursuit thereof” is taken from her most recent book, “Rising, Falling ...

“the pursuit of Happiness” had real meaning ... Ever since the reproduction of parts of his poem “The Vanity of Human Wishes” in Poor Richard’s Almanack for 1750, his work had found ...

So cried the children in Maurice Maeterlinck’s The Blue Bird when, after searching through heaven, earth and purgatory, they found the bird of happiness ... love with his poems when she was ...

Pursuit of Happiness' by Jeffrey Rosen ... Hamilton and the poet and independence activist Mercy Otis Warren all notated their reading with poetry. “[President] John Quincy Adams would wake up in the ...

When Thomas Jefferson included “the pursuit of Happiness” as an unalienable right in the Declaration of Independence, he wasn't talking about fleeting joy. Here's the true meaning behind the ...

The Declaration of Independence promises the right to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. At a time when the language and intent of the Constitution are under intense scrutiny ...