Sentences with phrase «as a poet with»

In 1965, he debuted as a poet with «Plain Song.»

These mini-units will have students begin to see themselves as poets with a voice worth expressing and listening to.

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Partly it feels like being damned with faint praise, as when people say Sylvia Plath was a «great woman poet.»

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

Nonetheless, as with poets, one should be able to help those whose neurons are not in the necessary configuration.

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.»»

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.

Identifying with Radha's pounding breasts as she steals out at night to meet Krishna, other poets graphically describe her fear while merely hinting at the suppressed thrill of her sortie, the arousal sharpened by the threat of discovery.

This formal and clever poet must find some such sense of the comic necessary, as he changes places each morning with that formal and intelligent commissioner of Social Security — since, as you've probably already guessed, they are one and the same person.

In Chapter 13 I shall discuss such matters — our present existence, shot through as it is even now with «bright beams of everlastingness,» in the poet's phrase, and our possible human destiny.

But as one comes to know the poet through the separate experience of a number of poems, so «out of the givers of the signs, the speakers of the words in lived life, out of the moment Gods there arises for us with a single identity the Lord of the voice, the One.»

With regard to a poet people speak of his having a call; but as for becoming a priest, it seems enough to the generality of men (and that means of Christians) that one has taken an examination.

This was inescapable in view of Israel's concept of the intimate relationship between God and nature; but at the same time it imparted to their understanding of the inanimate world, and to their poetic expression of it, a beauty and elevation, and withal a majesty such as, one may venture the judgment, to rank them with the best poets of any age.

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.

This is the period in which the Olympian gods and such myths as those associated with the Trojan War were taken seriously, provided the major material for sculptors and poets, and profoundly influenced the vision of reality.

To help me with my task, I have explored the teachings of my own tradition, the writings of the rabbis, as well as the wisdom of scientists, philosophers and poets through the ages.

Drawing on novelists, poets, as well as Scripture, Trotter leads us through a perilous issue with a result that opens up new options for religious expressions, as well as warnings about traditional religious language.

Peter Levi, the classicist and poet (and former Jesuit), echoes this view when he observes that Shakespeare's «personal religion, so far as his plays reveal it» which is not very far» seems to have been something like Montaigne's with a touch of neo «Platonism....

Indeed, Chopra and Walsch speak about God and our capacity to experience God with the realism and confidence of the ancient philosophers and poets that Luke quotes as he forms this Pauline speech in Acts.

Her book strengthens our understanding of Niebuhr's friendships with such luminaries as Episcopal Bishop Will Scarlett, Methodist Bishop Francis McConnell, Anglican Archbishop William Temple, English politician Stafford Cripps, historian R. H. Tawney, poet W H. Auden and theologian Dietrich Bonhoeffer.

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.

Joseph Smith ancestors are along with Eight U.S. presidents are known to be descended from Mayflower passengers, and a number of other famous people including astronauts, poets, politicians, actors and actresses, directors, inventors and others are descendants as well.

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.

As is often the way with brainy, moody teenagers, I had come to believe in the gospel according to Jack Kerouac, Dizzy Gillespie, and a hodgepodge of Japanese poets, absurdist playwrights, and existentialist philosophers whose works I'd found on adjacent shelves on the second floor of the public library.

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.

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.

That can range from the «Et Resurrexit» of Bach's B Minor Mass to the hands - raised «Hallelujah» of a storefront revival, from the embrace of reconciled enemies to a glimpse of the world charged with the grandeur of God as the poet Gerard Manley Hopkins caught it.

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.

With Aquinas and Aristotle I see time, becoming, potentiality, contingency as belonging together, but unlike both I put them in God as well as in creatures, and indeed, as Whitehead says, God is both creator (poet of the world) and creature.

When Smith tells Isabella, in Rimbaud's voice, that «we are dying,» she pronounces the girl's name with heroic indignation, as if only poets can straddle the space between the living and the dead.

Dear hippie poet, Yahveh is completely acceptable, just another step in the transliteration evolution, i assume you know all about this as you seem so intent on dazzling the computer screen masses with your staggering depth and profundity.

The Germans themselves, my kinsmen, as has been mentioned before, brought this all to full fruition by seeing themselves as a superior culture with the best poets and philosophers.

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).

We commend the poet's consummately sensitive powers of identification with participating leaders and people; with recalcitrant as well as with responding tribes; with the whole natural environment of the event, poetically clothed with vital purpose and depicted as a glorious participant (vv.

It is not simply that poets must work with ordinary words to say their new thing, but some poets are what Paul Van Buren calls «strange ones» for whom the ordinary things of life strike them as wonderful: «the decisive point to be made is that some men are struck by the ordinary, whereas most find it only ordinary.»

The conversation is never, as it sometimes was with earlier poets, two - sided.

The vivid imagination and the sharp observation of men and nature that marked his mind; his acquaintance with common speech and his joy in the use of proverbs; indeed, his capacity to express in creative speaking with a skill that only a poet and genius possesses the whole range of human emotions from awe in the presence of the numinous to the feelings of the body — all are reflected in his sermons (as also in the commentaries, his work of the lecture room), not consistently, of course, and not every time, yet most impressively in the Church Postil Sermons, one of the products of his exile on Wartburg Castle, written in order to furnish to the preachers of the Reformation examples of Biblical preaching.

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.

As he continues his push to shore up support in the Democratic base, Andrew Cuomo is meeting this morning with Latino leaders at the Nuyorican Poets Café on 236th Street.

[198] In addition to novels, other literature arts such as Ghanaian theatre and poetry have also had a very good development and support at the national level with prominent Ghanaian playwrights and poets Joe de Graft and Efua Sutherland.

WAMC's Hudson Valley Bureau Chief spoke with Robert Kelly about that night and what he has planned as poet laureate.

That technique, known as the loci method, reportedly originated in 477 B.C. with the Greek poet Simonides of Ceos.

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.

The world could indeed end with a bang, not a whimper, as the poet prophesied.

Upon receiving the Cervantes Prize in 1979 («a generous blunder that I shamelessly accept,» he said), Borges commented in an interview that with the prize money — a million pesetas, to be shared with Spanish poet Gerardo Diego — he planned to buy the Espasa Calpe encyclopedia, which he eventually received as a present from the publishers.

Books with titles like Physics for Poets, such as this one by Robert March, should be legitimate occupants of the well - rounded 20th - century bookcase.