Sentences with phrase «as the poet wrote»

No rule can be final and complete; plainly enough, as the poet wrote, «new occasions teach new duties,» while «time makes ancient good uncouth.»

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.

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.

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.»

Just as a poet leaves the text to his readers, and they will often find meaning there that he never intended, Niebuhr's intententions when writing the prayer can be quite rightly discarded.

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!

Every step an arrival, as the poet Denise Levertov wrote.

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

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.»»

He «adores,» he says, such poets as Richard Hugo and Linda Pastan, and as a young poet he began trying to write in the style of his antithesis, Robert Creeley.

As Richard Crashaw, the great Baroque poet of England, wrote: «Th» have left Thee naked, Lord, O that they had; / This garment too I would they had denied.

As the seventeenth - century poet George Herbert (1593 - 1633) wrote:

As he wrote, ««Because sometimes you need a biologist, and sometimes you need a poet.

I'm shaped by this place, as Luci Shaw wrote about poets, the slender antennae of awareness is always combing the world, and I am shaped by the people here, by their stories, by our becoming - shared histories, what I pick up here matters for my work, my voice, my faith, my family, perhaps it's not so prideful in this context, to say that it matters for the world.

The American spirit and the American earth of our day as distinguished from the spirit and earth of any other land or time, these are the major themes of Wolfe's writing, and it is as a poet that he articulates them.

Striking a more literary note from Egypt, poet and playwright Ali Salem wrote after 9/11 an open letter of apology to Americans: «Extremism may claim God as its redeemer, but it's really the selfish product of lunacy....

She walked the dog as I started writing, then climbed the stairs to work at her own desk on her own poems and on [poet] Akhmatova.

As the American poet and essayist Mark Signorelli has written: «Once it became common to doubt or to deny that man had any essential inclination toward beauty or truth, the purpose of making objects intended to unite beauty and truth in various ways was no longer evident.»

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.

In his elder years, famous as a poet, he wrote, «I set a higher value on my name as appended to the Anti-Slavery Declaration of 1833 than on the title page of any book.»

Finally, all of these poets write within a culture in which physical science has replaced metaphysics as the model of the knowable.

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.

In fact, being a wife is often a complicated reality for women; as poet Jill Bialosky wrote so succinctly in The Bitch in the House: 26 Women Tell the Truth about Sex, Solitude, Work, Motherhood and Marriage, «I had wanted to get married, but I realized now that I had never wanted to be a «wife.»»

The following quotes about moms were written as far back as the 18th century and come to us from many well - known authors, song writers, poets and many other influential people.

Griffiths is the editor of the Daily Mail's «Girl About Town» column, where she recently wrote about Judi Dench's love for Ed Sheeran and how the son of poet Amanda Eliasch is «taking the London social scene by storm» as a cross-dressing singer.

As poet Robert Frost wrote, «The brain is a wonderful organ.

As the poet Rumi wrote, «The wound is the place where the Light enters you.»

Having Spanish as a first language has also influenced my work, as I often write poems in Spanish and a lot of my favorite poets write in Spanish, as well.

As the poet Park Benjamin wrote, Flowers are Loves truest language.

Novelist, poet and playwright Kevin Craig, long known as KTC on Absolute Write, set some time aside for an interview, just days after release of his sixth

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Greta Gerwig, the one - time mumblecore starlet who wrote and directed the movie, has already established herself as a poet laureate of anxious youth, having co-authored and starred in Noah Baumbach's bittersweet, screwball study of arrested development, Frances Ha.

Greta Gerwig, the one - time mumblecore starlet who wrote and directed the movie, has already established herself as a poet...

The film ends on a note of celebrating acclaimed poets and their mental disorders, although the film never really looks at Carla or Marco struggling with their writing as much as their relationship.

Paterson's verse, written by Oklahoma - born poet Ron Padgett, appears onscreen in handwriting as Driver's voice hesitantly tests the sounds of the words; they fit the character like a favorite old suit.

From Sundance, Anthony Kaufman at Screen Daily wrote: «With Certain Women, Kelly Reichardt confirms her status as cinema's foremost poet of the American Northwest...»

The conversation about his sexuality extended from the fact that Franco has previously said he's gay in his work, which was to explain why he has starred in such queer films as Milk, which won Sean Penn an Academy Award for portraying gay rights activist and politician Harvey Milk; Howl as poet Allen Ginsberg; Sal, which he also wrote and directed; and Interior.

What does a poet bring to the table when writing a piece about racism that journalists or novelists might not access quite as easily?

The next phase concerns the changeover to adopting the full pattern of the original carol, much as does the poet when writing a sonnet or adopting any other formalised structure.

What fun your poets will have as they create Halloween themed acrostic poems on these engaging writing templates!

As poetry mentors, these famous poets will prepare students, (with my help), to write their own stunning poetry in grades 2, 3, and 4.

National Poetry Day free downloadable ebook: http://nationalpoetryday.co.uk/education/messages-national-poetry-day-ebook/ With Macmillan Children's Books, it has nominated 14 poets as National Poetry Day Ambassadors, with special responsibility for igniting enthusiasm nationwide by visiting schools, organizing events and competitions and writing new work on the theme of Messages.

Since I'm a poet as well as an elementary school teacher, I'm always keen to show how poetry develops students» creative writing skills, expressive communication, and emotional intelligence.

Featuring extracts of medieval drama, epic poetry, dream visions and riddles alongside over 20 articles exploring themes such as gender, faith and heroism written by poets, academics and writers including Simon Armitage, Hetta Howes and David Crystal, Discovering Literature: Medieval offers unprecedented access to the British Library's collections and provides contemporary scholarly insight for young people and learners across the world.

«World over, we seem intent on splintering ourselves into as many sub-groups as it will take for us to feel comfortable in our skins again,» writes Harmony Siganporia, who in the aftermath of Brexit revisits the teachings of poet, folklorist, scholar and grammarian AK Ramanujan to further explore the meanings of context - free and context - sensitive cultures.

Teaching Artists show students different approaches to writing, often using pieces by acclaimed contemporary poets and lyricists as a starting point, and give students writing prompts to begin the work of crafting individual and group poems.

As they work, they're prompted to write several sentences about about the poet's style and check their responses against an answer guide.

I write poetry and consider myself a poet as well as an author and writer and for that matter, also a journalist.

And when the writing is as beautiful as Ms. Adamson's, a celebrated Canadian poet, it becomes an