Sentences with phrase «as the poet john»

As the poet John Donne [1] said, «no man is an island».

As the poet John Ashbery once said: «Most reckless things are beautiful in some way, and recklessness is what makes experimental art beautiful, just as religions are beautiful because of the strong possibilities that they are founded on nothing.»

Not exact matches

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.

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.

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 concluding his statement, the president combined words from the first and last lines of a moving poem, «High Flight,» written by a poet - pilot, John Gillespie Magee, Jr. «We will never forget them,» the president said, «nor the last time we saw them this morning as they prepared for their journey and waved goodbye, «and slipped the surly bonds of earth to touch the face of God.»»

Like the British poet, Juster can be both biting and comic — as can those two masters of wit and fluid syntax, Howard Nemerov and John Berryman.

After the King James Version rendered the two words «help meet,» poet John Dryden came along and hyphenated them, describing his wife as his tireless «help - meet.»

The only question is, as the English poet John Betjeman put it in his poem «Christmas,» is it true?

John Goodman and Garrett Hedlund show up as an obnoxious jazz man and a laconic beat poet, respectively.

John can currently be seen in the revisionist thriller «The Raven» as American poet Edgar Allen Poe, and has a number of other projects in the works, including the black - ops thriller «The Numbers Station,» the Spanish - language comedy «No somos animales,» the true crime thriller «The Frozen Ground,» and two new films from director Lee Daniels: «The Paperboy» and as Richard Nixon in the star - studded «The Butler.»

KILL YOUR DARLINGSDirector: John KrokidasStarring: Daniel Radcliffe, Dane DeHaan, Jack Huston, Michael C. Hall, Ben Foster, Elizabeth Olsen, Jennifer Jason Leigh Daniel Radcliffe goes from one literary world to another as he dons some nifty glasses and curls to play beat poet Allen Ginsberg.

John Cusack plays Poe the poet, along with Luke Evans as Detective Fields, and Alice Eve as Emily Hamilton.

The pitch: Another period bio, this one starring Ben Whishaw and Abbie Cornish as 19th - century poet John Keats and Fanny Brawne, whose love affair ended tragically with Keats» untimely death at age 25.

John Goodman adds some color (as per usual) as Roland Turner, a jazz musician Llewyn meets on the road who might be more obnoxious than he is; Garrett Hedlund makes a brief appearance as Turner's driver, cigarette un-sharing, beat - poet Johnny Five; and F. Murray Abraham plays up the big whig (or as big as they get at this point) Bud Grossman, a potential label representative Llewyn has been eyeing in Chicago, his possible ticket for getting out of all of this mess.

Luckily, Seventies dude psychiatrist with previously unrecognised mystic powers of his own, Dr Strange (played by Peter Hooten, in later life the partner of the poet James Merrill), saves Clea and Sir John by entering the «astral plane», which basically looks as though it was filmed inside a kaleidoscope from a pound shop, to confront the demon Balzaroth, certainly very red - eyed but otherwise unrewardingly indistinct.

Directed by Baz Luhrmann (WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE»S ROMEO AND JULIET, STRICTLY BALLROOM), the movie stars Nicole Kidman as the high - kicking courtesan, Satine; Ewan McGregor as the sensitive poet, Christian; and John Leguizamo as the flamboyant artist and matchmaker, Toulouse - Lautrec.

I include puzzles which would aid the revision of poetry such as John Keats» ode To Autumn and also include references to other Romantic poets, Tennyson and Shakespeare.

John Gower, middling poet and expert trader in secrets, is summoned to investigate the killings even as the ruthless mayor of London seeks to thwart an open inquiry for reasons unknown.

Though the word «journalism» has been eschewed by academics, poets and novelists, Talese, along with New Yorker writer John McPhee, who says he's an «old» (meaning traditional) journalist, frequently refer to themselves as «reporters.»

Throughout the preceding decade, Clement Greenberg, also a former poet, had established a reputation as a leftist critic through his writings with The Partisan Review — a publication run by the John Reed Club, a New York City - centered organization affiliated with the American Communist Party — and his time as an art critic with The Nation.

Social life with Ada in the»50s and»60s revolved around poets — Frank O'Hara, John Ashbery, Kenneth Koch — as much as painters.

Black Mountain's legacy continued however, with former students such as painter Robert Rauschenberg, publisher Jonathan Williams, and poet John Wieners bringing the revolutionary spirit of their alma mater to the forefront of a number of other cultural movements and institutions.

A frequent collaborator with artists and poets, Rand has worked as draughtsman with Robert Creeley and John Ashbery and explored subjects as diverse as jazz, the Bible, and Jewish history.

These role - playing guises — whether the donning of a paper mask of poet Arthur Rimbaud, as in David Wojnarowicz's haunting series shot on New York City streets and back alleys, or dressing up like singer Joni Mitchell, as in John Kelly's well - loved impersonation — speaks to the ability of artists to evoke ghosts from the past or visions of the future within the debatably forthright medium of the camera.

B.A., Amherst College; creates An Image of Salomé for his senior thesis project, which is published by the artist and printed at Apiary Press, run by Baskin's students at Smith College; meets and becomes good friends with Baskin's assistant George Lockwood, who would later found Impressions Workshop in Boston; marries Gail Beckwith (later, the poet Gail Mazur), who was then a student at Smith College; begins graduate study at School of Art and Architecture, Yale University, New Haven; studies with Gabor Peterdi, Bernard Chaet, William Bailey, Rico Lebrun, Sewell Sillman, Neil Welliver, art historian Egbert Haverkamp - Begemann, and Asian - art historian Nelson Wu, as well as with visiting artists Fairfield Porter and John Scheuler; makes regular Thursday trips with other students to Peterdi's home / studio; works as a teaching assistant for both Peterdi and Bailey.

Illuminations by Arthur Rimbaud, translated by John Ashbery Find out for yourself why this 19th century French poet influenced artists such as Jim Morrison, Bob Dylan and Patti Smith.

As she said at the time to poet John Ashbery who wrote an article about Mitchell's new work for Artnews: «I'm trying to remember what I felt about a certain cypress tree and I feel if I remember it, it will last me quite a long time.»

Writing in the New York Times as long ago as 1982, the great critic John Russell described Parks as ``... a true poet in paint and something of a find.»

Included are such disparate names as concrete poet Ian Hamilton Finlay, British pop artist Eduardo Paolozzi, eminent collagist John Stezaker, as well as young artists such as conceptual photographer Walead Beshty and cataloguer of protest songs Ruth Ewan.

Peter Schjeldahl began his writing career as a poet and a follower of such New York School greats as John Ashbery, Frank O'Hara, Kenneth Koch and the rest of their crowd.

Early on, she became an important part of the circle that sprang up around such poets as Koch, John Ashbery, James Schuyler, and O'Hara, all of whom often wrote about both the woman and her work, and painters like Rivers, Grace Hartigan and others, who all admired her painting.

In the 1960s, Leslie began to make films and publish magazines with poets such as Frank O'Hara and John Ashbery.

In the United States, he counted among his friends the leaders of American modernism, artists such as Joseph Stella, John Sloan, John Marin, Marsden Hartley, Georgia O'Keeffe, and Alfred Stieglitz, as well as the poets Hart Crane and E.E. Cummings.

The documentary features the music of Sam Beam, of Iron & Wine, and will be followed by a Q&A with the filmmakers, Michele Poulos and Gregory Donovan (also poets), as well as St. John.

Its members included the Beat poets, the composer John Cage, choreographer Merce Cunningham and musicians such as Miles Davies, Stan Getz and John Coltrane.

His lush mauves, pinks, greens, silvery whites, tea browns and soft yellows establish a lyrical resonance that has led John Canady to refer to Avery as the lyrical poet laureate of American painting.

This exhibition is billed as «the first major U.S. exhibition about the American poet, artist, activist and muse John Giorno.»

When one speaks of Abstract Expressionism as the New York School, one can forget that the term also refers to poets like John Ashbery, Kenneth Koch, and Frank O'Hara, with a rough and ready cadence akin to jazz.

Comprised of unbound signatures and free plates, Folder contained original screenprints by Gandy Brodie, Grace Hartigan, Leslie, and Felix Pasilis, though its list of poets is perhaps more striking today, including as it did Frank O'Hara, John Ashbery, James Merrill, and Aldan.

For a true poet, text art can never be as bloodless as for Lawrence Weiner or John Baldessari in America.

«I ♥ John Giorno,» a group exhibition conceived by Giorno's longtime boyfriend Ugo Rondinone, is a massive love letter to the celebrated poet of the New York underground, with contributions from art - world luminaries such as Billy Sullivan, Verne Dawson, Elizabeth Peyton, Michael Stipe, and Pierre Huyghe, among others.

Twombly often quoted the poets as Stéphane Mallarmé, Rainer Maria Rilke and John Keats, as well as many classical myths and allegories in his works.

In the mid-20th century her circle included painters such as Larry Rivers, Fairfield Porter and Joan Mitchell and the poets John Ashbery, Kenneth Koch and Frank O'Hara.

Semina served as a brilliant compendium of work by the most interesting artists and poets of the time, including Berman himself, William Burroughs, Allen Ginsberg, Jess, Joan Brown, Robert Duncan, and John Altoon, among many others.

During the hour, he called numerous celebrated intellectuals such as composer John Cage, science fiction writer Arthur C. Clarke, futurist Herman Kahn, artist Joseph Beuys, novelist Jerzy Kosinski, poet Michael McClure, and asked, in various ways, the following:

Aside from visual artists, the Club also has hosted lectures and performances from such prominent musicians as John Cage, Philip Glass, Ramsey Lewis and Igor Stravinsky, and poets W. H. Auden, Gertrude Stein and William Butler Yeats.

1975 Poets of the Cities / New York and San Francisco 1950 - 65, Dallas Museum of Fine Arts, Dallas, TX; San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, CA; Wadsworth Athenaeum, Hartford, CT Art as a Muscular Principle / 10 Artist and San Francisco 1950 - 1965 / roots and new directions, John and Norah Warbeke Gallery, Mount Holyoke College, South Hadley, MA

John Perreault, who's a poet as well as a curator, he had a show there.

Or as phrased by President John F. Kennedy, «Behind the storm of daily conflict and crisis, the poet, the artist, the musician continues the quiet work of centuries...»