Sentences with phrase «gifts as a poet»

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.

Nevertheless, that she was special was readily apparent to everyone who encountered her, and I mean special far beyond her extraordinary and singular gifts as a poet.

Almost equally gifted as a poet, prose - writer, and painter, and of the rarest individuality in all three arts, he may be said without exaggeration to have been an extraordinary man.

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Of the cursed poets, Verlaine is perhaps the most sympathetic figure: Although his poetic gift marks him as extraordinary, in every other respect his weaknesses are all too human.

The night will feature live, true and personal stories from gifted storytellers including Jodi Lasseter of North Carolina League of Conservation Voters and Gary Phillips, poet laureate of Carrboro (pictured below), as well as TC Muhammad of Hip Hop Caucus, youth activist Cole Rasenberger and more.

Latterly, in the West at least, eccentrics have shown a remarkable capacity to flourish while inviting and suffering derision, as demonstrated by numerous «bad» poets and singers stubbornly and unaffectedly proud of their dubious gifts, as well as the many self - styled emperors and statesmen.

Nick Ray's gift as a visual poet is never more apparent than when you see «They Live by Night» on the big screen.

What begins as a relatively generic documentary about a humble man, spoken word poet Shane Koyczan, who made his voice his means of living, builds towards an emphatic and emotionally resonant climax wherein Shane's estranged father listens to him use his gift to shed all his feelings about the man who was never there...

Like the Staten Island educator at the center of this film, The Kindergarten Teacher pushes boundaries and crosses lines as it navigates its way through a tricky story of a five - year - old boy (newcomer Parker Sevak), who shows an unreal gift for poetry, and his teacher, Lisa (a career - best performance by Maggie Gyllenhaal, who is also one of the film's producers), who struggles in her adult - education class to be a poet as well, if only to add a bit of culture to a home life that offers her little by way of intellectual stimulation.

Why not have your students travel through your school as poet minstrels, wrap up and give poems to each other as gifts, or keep poems in their pockets so they are always ready to share?

Yet Kandinsky's curious gift of colour - hearing, which he successfully translated onto canvas as «visual music», to use the term coined by the art critic Roger Fry in 1912, gave the world another way of appreciating art that would be inherited by many more poets, abstract artists and psychedelic rockers throughout the rest of the disharmonic 20th century.

As a way of honoring those collectors who have made generous gifts to the Museum in recent years, Arts & Letters commissioned a new song by renowned composer Robert Beaser and poet Daniel Mark Epstein entitled Vision at Dawn, which premiered at this event.

As the American poet Sidney Madwed quoted, «The greatest gift you can give to someone is encouragement and self - confidence.»