Sentences with phrase «as a poet of»

I bring this up because Vanity Fair is touting Al Gore as a poet of doom.

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Then there was the pastor who demanded that the congregation «fill in the blanks» of a not - so - old song by a guy the minister described as the «dysfunctional poet savant Lil» Wayne.»

As the poets say, the best laid schemes of mice and men often go awry.

Three months into his new job as dean of INSEAD (no. 2 on Poets & Quants» non-U.S. MBA rankings) it's déjà vu all over again as he learns the ins and outs of a new institution.

As a poet, Ted Hughes had an acute sensitivity to the way in which constraints on self - expression, like the disciplines of meter and rhyme, spur creative thought.

«As a senior executive, the years of practical experience are invaluable,» she tells Poets & Quants.

The official Instagram account for Italian museums is sharing art by women of all walks of life, as «saints and prostitutes, goddesses and commoners, intellectuals and artists, actresses and martyrs, writers and poets, mothers, Madonnas and revolutionaries.»

The daughter of the famed poet Lord Byron, Lovelace's mother had her thoroughly schooled in math and sciences as a bulwark against the young woman exhibiting too many of her dad's literary tendencies.

Large biofuel firms like Abengoa Bioenergy U.S., Iberdrola U.S.A., Pacific Ethanol, and POET joined the pledge, while some of the biggest agriculture firms — like Cargill and Monsanto (MON)-- did as well.

As published July 25, 2013 in The Globe and Mail: by John Manley «No man is an island entire of itself,» the poet John Donne wrote four centuries ago.

Ralph Waldo Emerson once described the 51 year old billionaire as a man or a company of men who was plastic and permeable to principles and by the law of nature overpowers and override all cities, nations, rich men, kings and poets.

And some of us are troubled by the shallow reasoning that has dominated the political discussions surrounding this move, as though the threadbare idea of equality were enough to settle every question concerning the long - term destiny of mankind and as though the writings of the anthropologists (not to mention the poets, the philosophers, the theologians, the novelists, the sociologists) counted for nothing beside the slogans of Stonewall.

The intention of the poet to attach the words «vacuum» to «womb» and «torture» is as stark as their placements, one atop the other.

Since its launch in 2005, the event has hosted such «page» notables as Billy Collins, Dana Gioia, and Philip Levine, as well as a tier - one lineup of stage poets that includes Bob Holman, Sarah Kay, and Andrea Gibson.

Anyway, by the time of his death he had probably already achieved as much as he might reasonably have hoped: He had been a certified naval physician, an explorer, a poet, a novelist, an essayist, an ethnographer, a linguist, a sinologist, an aesthetic theorist, and a few other things besides.

Poets like Wordsworth see the human person as capable of communing with the whole of reality, or at least with aspects in a deeper, more profound way.

And if these revelations of common piety upset his nonreligious admirers, he, too, was somewhat upset by the experience: «My presence in such a place was disturbed / By my duty as a poet who should not flatter popular imaginings, / Yet who desires to remain faithful to your unfathomable intention / When you appeared to children at Fatima and Lourdes.»

Money should be spent, if at all, on the starving poor, rather than on anointing the feet of Christ or (as the poet said, and Peggy will quote) «touch [ing] the face of God.»

Milosz does not answer this question in the poem, but his work as poet has always been to give voice to precisely this: all the sad, neglected stories of so many men and women.

He observes, however, that «the modernist desire in Frost and Eliot — to preserve an independent selfhood against the coercions of the market, a self made secure by the creation of a unique style — is subverted by the market, not because they wrote according to popular formulas, but because they give us their poems as delicious experiences of voyeurism, illusions of direct access to the life and thought of the famous writer, with the poet inside the poem like a rare animal in a zoo.

No, the things the young Robert Lowell needed most as a poet were a coherent system of thought, a rich set of symbols, and a powerful collection of truths with which to begin his work.

While I don't subscribe to even a majority of Barfield's views on other subjects, as a poet I have to say that his views on the nature, development, and purpose of language ring true.Don't know if any of this makes sense, but there it is.

It is no accident that Percy summons Flannery O'Connor to such questions as well; but unlike her, he does not anchor his response in St. Augustine and St. Paul (we have here no abiding place) nor in St. Thomas, whose argument is insistent that the poet's, the artist's, responsibility is to the good of the thing being made, not with the correction of appetites in his audience.

Christian bookselling giant Mardel publishes the poetry of Amy Carmichael, whose life and work may inspire but whose verse is flat and sugary, but nothing from contemporary poetry's most prominent Christian poets, such as Richard Wilbur and Mark Jarman.

Further evidence that Graber's volume was worthy of notice might be found in the fact that her book was the first selection in the re-launched Princeton Series of Contemporary Poets and — as one reader reminded us — a nominee for a National Book Award.

, even quoting from one of their poets: «For by him (God) we have life and move and exist, even as certain ones of the poets among you have said,» For we are all his progeny.»

In constructing a black liberation theology, Jones» vision returns him, in the words of poet Langston Hughes, to «rivers ancient as the world and older than the flow of human blood in human veins.

Prudentius may have his limitations as a poet, but what is the point of rendering his work in this faint English doggerel?

Guilt by association has been a frequently invoked form of polemics — and an effective one, since the ecology movement has been a bizarre congeries of political reactionaries, romantic conservationists, political cop - outs, solitary poets, anarchic life - stylers, as well as genuine political radicals, serious - minded reformers, and level - headed natural scientists.

• Edwin Muir, The Complete Poems: As far as I can tell, Muir is the least - read great poet in English of the twentieth century; he is mostly remembered, it seems, for his translations of Kafka (which are immeasurably better than anyone else'sAs far as I can tell, Muir is the least - read great poet in English of the twentieth century; he is mostly remembered, it seems, for his translations of Kafka (which are immeasurably better than anyone else'sas I can tell, Muir is the least - read great poet in English of the twentieth century; he is mostly remembered, it seems, for his translations of Kafka (which are immeasurably better than anyone else's).

As for the suggestion by the Society for Christian - Jewish Co-operation that an interfaith committee advise on revisions, he referred me to a statement by the burgomaster of Oberammergau dated May 13, 1960, which asserted that all matters pertaining to the play are entirely the business of the community of Oberammergau, that the Society for Christian - Jewish Co-operation had overstepped its bounds, and that if revisions became necessary Oberammergau would consult only the church, the poets and the experts in theater practice.

As for our country's moral plight: We once prided ourselves on endorsing the words of poet Emma Lazarus, who wrote the famous sonnet inscribed on the Statue of Liberty: «Keep, ancient lands, your storied pomp!

Commentaries on Virgil and Virgilian legends» in which Virgil appears as a powerful magician» make up the last half of the book, which will be of great interest to scholars and devotees of the poet.

When he relates his one adult visit to her» he by then a rising literary lion, she a well - known poet» Oz recognizes her flat as the home of a religious woman but conveys little sense of what that might mean.

Acts 17:24 - 28 «24 The God who made the world and all things in it, since He is Lord of heaven and earth, does not dwell in temples made with hands; 25 nor is He served by human hands, as though He needed anything, since He Himself gives to all people life and breath and all things; 26 and He made from one man every nation of mankind to live on all the face of the earth, having determined their appointed times and the boundaries of their habitation, 27 that they would seek God, if perhaps they might grope for Him and find Him, though He is not far from each one of us; 28 for in Him we live and move and exist, as even some of your own poets have said, «For we also are His children.»»

And though very often it is literal light, it is also the wisdom of the poet who helps us to understand more deeply what it is to be human, just as our Lord himself took flesh to do.

Though he is now celebrated as a major reformer, mystical poet, and Doctor of the Church, what John had to endure to reach those heights is almost unimaginable.

The Sikh scriptures, the Guru Granth Sahib or Adi Granth, which was originally compiled by the 5th Guru, Guru Arjan in 1604 — in the same year as work began on the Authorised or King James Version of the Bible — contains devotional hymns by Hindu and Muslim poets and saints as well as by the Gurus.

We remember Montague as a wonderful lyric poet who produced poems that will be long remembered, all of them sharpened by a sense of loss that is both personal and cultural.

His extraordinary gifts as poet — and these are the most salient aspects of what he has left behind — enable him to reach everyone who loves to watch or hear language do everything it can do.

Further, there should be an in - depth series immediately on Acts 17:26 - 28 which reads, «And He has made from one blood [a] every nation of men to dwell on all the face of the earth, and has determined their preappointed times and the boundaries of their dwellings, so that they should seek the Lord, in the hope that they might grope for Him and find Him, though He is not far from each one of us; for in Him we live and move and have our being, as also some of your own poets have said, «For we are also His offspring.»

Eliot, our latest great Christian poet, avoids Christian language for the most part, seeking, as in the Four Quartets, for another language as the objective correlative of his religious experience.

Persian still retained its predominance as late as the period of the last Mughal emperor, when Ghalib, one of the most brilliant Urdu poets, still prided himself on his Persian odes and looked upon his Urdu poetry with shame.

Even if the date and place of Jesus» birth may be uncertain, the claim that God entered human history is central to traditional Christian belief, as the British poet Sir John Betjeman (1906 - 84) indicated in his poem «Christmas»:

In Inferno XXIX, Dante emphasizes this point by comparing counterfeiters, victims of a plague - like ailment in their eternal damnation, to those plague victims on the island of Aegina described by Ovid, who were replaced by «ant - people» — «secondo che i poeti hanno per fermo» (as the poets hold for certain).

But the truth is that in the great matters of life, we men have no choice: we must speak as poets.

A similar revulsion was recorded even earlier by the imperial Roman poet Virgil, who depicted an episode of the Roman civil wars as a victory of human law and ordinary human beings over «every kind of monstrous god and barking Anubis too.»

The poet invites us to watch creation as it is assaulted by God; the social context of Jeremiah provides ample motivation for the debilitating rage of Yahweh.

To insist that Blake was successful as an artist and poet only to the extent that he resurrected an ancient form of myth is to deny the Christian ground of his vision and to reject the great bulk of his mature work.

True, the modern poet — as exemplified, in widely divergent ways, by a Joyce and a Kafka — has given himself in large measure to a reversal of our mythical traditions.