Sentences with phrase «as a poet who»

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.»

Czeslaw Milosz stood apart as a poet who dared to be preoccupied with such things.

Not exact matches

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.»

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.

The poet is seen as confused, scared, overcomplicated, hidden behind his «wit,» and, finally, a nihilist altogether — a man who knows his religious faith «doesn't stand up to scrutiny,» and so writes «these screwed - up sonnets.»

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!

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.

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.

Dante takes on Thomas» objections by claiming total veracity for his poem as he smilingly capitulates to them: he is, after all, only another lying poet, but one who nonetheless claims to tell «the truth,» and indeed literal truth.

In addition, and perhaps most importantly, Virgil was a poet who wrote poetry as history, and Dante followed this example as well.

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).

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.»

It is usually taken for granted, without discussion, by those who like to see Shakespeare as England's national (and therefore Protestant) poet.

Left - wing critics who had adopted Auden as their poet laureate now deplored his return to the church.

Among his correspondents were nuns who moonlighted as literary critics and the devout Irish Catholic poet and art historian Thomas MacGreevy.

Your exegetical answers speak to the metaphysician and poet in me as well as to the scholar who loves and wishes to obey the Voice of the One.

Humanly speaking his destruction is the most certain of all things — and the despair in his soul fights desperately to get leave to despair, to get, if you will, repose for despair, the consent of his whole personality to despair, so that he would curse nothing and nobody more fiercely than him who attempted (Or it may be the attempt) to prevent him from despairing, as the poet's poet so capitally, so incomparably expresses it in Richard II, Act 3, Scene Z:

The poets who came of age after the modernist revolution, on the other hand, have been more cautious, second - guessing, self - conscious; and as a contemporary poet has complained, one result of modernism is that «generation after generation of poets have had confidence in their place undermined.

In the era of Woodstock and Port Huron, Haggard was viewed as a kind of counter to Joan Baez, a poet laureate of Richard Nixon's «silent majority» who took a direct shot at the 1960s hippie scene and student protests in his most famous song, «Okie from Muskogee.»

Staffner includes Brahmabandhab Upadhyaya (1861 - 1907), a close friend of Swami Vivekananda, who tried to interpret Christianity in Indian philosophical categories, Narayan Vaman Tilak (1861 - 1919), who is loved throughout Maharashtra as «the poet of children and flowers», and Pandita Ramabai (1858 - 1922), who saw in Jesus Christ the hope and salvation of Indian womanhood.

The book is interesting as a scripture of a particular religion, in that it includes so much material from poets who were never associated with the movement, though some of them deeply influenced Nanak.

He cites Botticelli's contemporary, the poet Buonincontri, who upended the classical pantheon in what could be called reverse Santeria, seeing Mercury as «Logos» and Venus as Mary.

Thus too the demoniacal may express itself as contempt for men — a contempt, be it observed, which does not cause a man to behave contemptibly, since on the contrary he counts it his forte that he is better than all who condemn him — In view of such cases the poets ought to lose no time in sounding the alarm.

Kenyon's life story is fascinating and wrenching, the stuff of both highbrow and middlebrow drama, She was a college student who married her much older professor, retreated with him from university life to a family farmhouse in New Hampshire, rediscovered her faith (without turning into a wild - eyed zealot), bravely battled depression, came into her own as a poet and loyally nursed her husband through two difficult bouts with cancer.

But I would appeal to any scientist who happens to be reading this book to think seriously that people such as poets, artists of every kind, mystics and indeed ordinary people of faith may be receiving truth in an entirely different way from that to which he is accustomed.

Poets celebrated the divinity associated with Augustus, and across the empire coins, monuments, temples and artwork promoted the cult of Augustus and other emperors who adopted Caesar as an honorific title.

Just to refresh minds what «Ghazis» used to mean; Ghazi (warrior); The Ottoman poet Ahmedi, writing ca. 1402, defines a gazi as «the instruments of God's religion, a servant of God who cleanses the earth from the filth of polytheism.»

Encounters like these brought Holly to the point of believing there was a God who fired the imaginative sense within her, but would eventually lead her to also investigate the beliefs of Christian poets such as Gerard Manley Hopkins and TS Eliot whose writing she connected with so profoundly: «I had a two - step conversion, first to belief in God then to belief in Christ.

Wanis, a poet and songwriter who owns a multimedia company, noticed the historic grounds of St. Mark's Anglican Pro-Cathedral (a parish church used as a cathedral), built in 1839 in the village of El Menshaiya, were beautiful — and underutilized.

The popularity of Allen Ginsberg is often cited as proof that anything goes if you're a poet these days, but there are still many who despise him and his kind.

Haeckel, having been born again through his encounter with Darwin, suggests the epistemology of those stalwart members of the culture of faith, the romantic poets, who thought of themselves as sensitive reeds through whom the metaphysical truth of things pulsed like irresistible grace.

I shall be reflecting largely from my own experience, as process thought enables and indeed requires us to do; but the nature of that experience is essentially that shared by all who nurture — whether, for example, single social workers, middle - aged adoptive parents, teachers who care about their students or, I suspect, those artists and poets who cherish and give birth to the world.

Surrealists, Beat poets, student revolutionaries, punk rockers, clever lycéens, and legions of the semi-educated who preen themselves on being thoroughly modern — as Rimbaud insisted we all must be — hold him in supreme reverence.

A profile in La Stampa headlined «the cardinal who brings poetry to the faith» described him as one who «speaks like a poet but his evangelical message covers the economy, society and politics».

In Wales, Rowan Williams is a poet as well as a theologian who often engages with literature, Donald Allchin is in deep dialogue with poets in many traditions, and Oliver Davies, having ranged through German, Russian and Welsh literature as well as Meister Eckhart, is now engaged on a major work of fundamental and systematic theology with a strong literary dimension.

Cohen was one of those rock - era poets (and arguably the only genuine poet among them) who sounded like he knew something of the utmost importance, even as he spent most of his time sidestepping every certainty and making the most of every mystery.

The abbreviations A, B, C, D in the endnotes refer to the four manuscript versions, which are titled as follows: A «Saint Thomas Aquinas and Three Poets Who Did Not Agree With Him» (20 pages, concluding paragraphs missing); B «Thomas Aquinas, Philosophical Theologian, and Some Poets Who Do Not Agree With Him: An Imagined Confrontation» (33 pages); C = untitled manuscript (23 pages); D = Thomas Aquinas, Theologian, and Some Poets Who Do Not Agree With Him: An Imagined Confrontation» (22 pages, page 21 missing).

Others, however, like the poet Alfred Tennyson (1809 - 92), who was influenced by the writings of the naturalist Charles Darwin (1809 - 82), see the apparent cruelty of the natural world as alien to the idea of a God of Love.

As Lewis sardonically notes, «The poet did not foresee that his work would one day meet the disarming simplicity of critics who take for gospel things said by the father of falsehood in public speeches to his troops.»

A comic - book fanatic as a kid, the Wolverines» junior wide receiver is now a budding slam poet who often alludes to superheroes from DC and Marvel comics in his verse.

Describing herself as «a proud Nigerian who was born and raised in London, Hackney», she is a second year English Language and Literature student who is renowned for her work as a performance poet.

Drawing on the words of the poet René Char as he tracked his own discovery of it during his days fighting for it in the French resistance, Arendt defines this public treasure in the language of those 18th century American revolutionaries who were willing to die for it: «the public happiness», or for the French revolutionaries: «public freedom», for Rousseau «popular sovereignty».

With his family and husband in attendance in the chambers of the Court of Appeals, Feinman spoke of his late brother, a comic and poet, who was also gay, as an inspiration.

Unquestionably, the dauntless legend who is also known as «Tuff Gong,» would pass for an activist; a freedom fighter, a reformer, a poet and above all else, a prophet.

With sly wit and boyish wonder, Kean's vignettes about key events in the understanding of air include numerous entertaining detours, such as the work of «William McGonagall, probably the worst poet who ever lived,» and Le Pétomane, a flatulence artist.

He was a paleontologist and mystic / poet who saw the entire universe as striving towards ever - greater «complexity - consciousness,» and thus ultimately toward its fulfillment in and through Christ, whom he termed the «Omega Point.»

Classically trained poets and writers at the time would have been exposed to a few sources that painted ancient Romans as just the sort of people who would vomit just to eat more.

It was another Russian researcher, Moisey Alexandrovich Markov, a «poet» of astroparticle physics, who suggested using natural bodies of water as neutrino detectors.