Sentences with phrase «life as a poet»

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The official Instagram account for Italian museums is sharing art by women of all walks of life, as «saints and prostitutes, goddesses and commoners, intellectuals and artists, actresses and martyrs, writers and poets, mothers, Madonnas and revolutionaries.»

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.

Christian bookselling giant Mardel publishes the poetry of Amy Carmichael, whose life and work may inspire but whose verse is flat and sugary, but nothing from contemporary poetry's most prominent Christian poets, such as Richard Wilbur and Mark Jarman.

, even quoting from one of their poets: «For by him (God) we have life and move and exist, even as certain ones of the poets among you have said,» For we are all his progeny.»

Guilt by association has been a frequently invoked form of polemics — and an effective one, since the ecology movement has been a bizarre congeries of political reactionaries, romantic conservationists, political cop - outs, solitary poets, anarchic life - stylers, as well as genuine political radicals, serious - minded reformers, and level - headed natural scientists.

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.»»

Further, there should be an in - depth series immediately on Acts 17:26 - 28 which reads, «And He has made from one blood [a] every nation of men to dwell on all the face of the earth, and has determined their preappointed times and the boundaries of their dwellings, so that they should seek the Lord, in the hope that they might grope for Him and find Him, though He is not far from each one of us; for in Him we live and move and have our being, as also some of your own poets have said, «For we are also His offspring.»

But the truth is that in the great matters of life, we men have no choice: we must speak as poets.

She works as a freelance writer by day, poet and fiction writer by whenever life gives her a few free moments.

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.»

poet Scientifically acceptable evidence for atheist belief that non existence follows life has as much weight as scientifically acceptable evidence that heaven awaits.

Some of the poets have been far from good, but greatness and beauty could not pass by without their seeing them, and they have known infallibly that greatness and beauty never passed so near as in the brief life and tragic death of Jesus of Nazareth.

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.

Him (Javier Barem, as God), a poet, and Mother (Jennifer Lawrence, as Mother Nature), live in a beautiful, old house.

The world, like Dionysus, is torn to pieces by pure intellect; but the poet is Zeus; he has swallowed the heart of the world; and he can reproduce it as a living body.2

It does not mean that one lives every day simply as if it were one's last — a kind of crazy living «for the moment» rather than living «in the moment,» to use a distinction made by the dying poet Ted Rosenthal in his book and movie bearing the same title, How Could I Not Be Among You?

For a time he came under the spell of the enigmatic poet Stefan George, whose writings spoke of a heightened sense of «experience,» through which one perceives the multiple threads of the tapestry of life as a transparent whole.

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.

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.»

Plato (c.428 - 348 BcE), for example, regarded the «inspired utterances of poets and prophets as, at best, symbolical adumbrations or shadows of truth and, at worse, the source of degrading superstitions».3 Fundamental to Plato's thought is the conviction that truth can not be found in everyday life and sensible reality, but in a more real or ideal realm of unchangeable or eternal forms, which are the blueprint and pattern of the world.

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.

Our programs are designed to draw upon and build creative capacities, developing the thinker, the artist, the scientist, the poet, the environmentalist, and the musician that lives within each of us, just as Waldorf educators draw upon and nuture these capacities within each child.

Colin, you are not only an excellent blogger, craftsman, artisan and dare I say, poet, but you are also a scholar of pop culture as demonstrated by your reference of probably one of the lamest blips of fame from this decade or the last (I can't remember which, but if my life was on the line, I'd guess the 90's).

After all, as poet Samuel Johnson famously said in 1777, «when a man is tired of London he is tired of life.»

It's a Friday afternoon in the transport hub known as Hull Paragon Interchange, and Peter Mandelson is admiring a statue of that local icon Philip Larkin, while paying tribute to the poet's singular view of life.

Time, said by poets to resemble a flowing stream, feels increasingly like an igloo: a hard, shrinking exoskeleton that simultaneously shapes our lives as it crushes them.

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.

It's no easy feat to make a living as a writer, as any aspiring novelist, columnist, or poet will be happy to tell you.

This look at the brief life of troubled American poet Hart Crane is a real one - man show as its star James Franco also serves as writer, director, producer, and editor.

I really really dislike the main character like he's actually in real life gonna get the girl of his dream, are you serious??? He has a crooked smile, wears pajamas all day outside of his house and talk's like a gay poet, I just think he sucks as an actor, uggh I don't know why I dislike him so much after this movie.On the other hand Rachel Bilson is very cute and not as bad of an actor This movie solely focuses on telling the story and making us like the characters for themselves.

The running theme of the film is the relationship between the legacy of Persian / Iranian culture — which, as seen in the quoted passages of these poets, was rife with the celebration of wine, women, and the life of the senses — with Iran in 1999.

Described as his «most autobiographical» film, it tells the story of celebrated American poet Emily Dickinson (Cynthia Nixon), charting her life from her strong - willed schooldays to her tragically isolated adulthood.

In films like «In Between Days,» «Treeless Mountain» and «For Ellen,» director So Yong Kim has established herself as a skilled poet of the everyday, finding beauty and drama in travel, jobs, relationships, parenthood... life, essentially.

Yet, like that other film, he chooses to focus not on the Chilean - born poet's early life, work or ascension to popularity among the country's liberals and intellects, but on his waning days as a politician in hiding from a changed government.

Related Reviews: Written and Directed by Richard Linklater: Boyhood • Before Midnight • Dazed and Confused • Slacker The Tree Of Life • City of Men • Frances Ha • Hugo • My Life As a Dog The Imitation Game • The Theory of Everything • Birdman • St. Vincent • Into the Woods • The Grand Budapest Hotel Ethan Hawke: Getaway • White Fang • Dead Poets Society • Brooklyn's Finest • New York, I Love You Patricia Arquette: Ed Wood • Holes • A Glimpse Inside the Mind of Charles Swan III

Jarrod Emerson's Tribute to Omar Sharif Part 3: DOCTOR ZHIVAGO (1965) We follow the life of «Yuri Andreyevich Zhivago» (Sharif), a doctor by profession, but a poet at heart, as he and loved ones endure the hardships of various conflicts in early twentieth century Russia.

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

This laudatory documentary recounts the life and work of writer Charles Bukowski, who survived a youth of boozing and fighting on Los Angeles» Skid Row to become famous as the «poet laureate of the gutter» and a hero to the counterculture.

In Neruda, the famous Chilean poet Pablo Neruda (Luis Gnecco) lives the high life as a communist, attending parties and sweeping women off their feet.

Detailing nearly four decades of the poet's life, «A Quiet Passion» follows Dickinson (played in younger years by Emma Bell and for the bulk of the film by a remarkable Cynthia Nixon) as she struggles with religious, proper society, artistic recognition and encroaching death.

To be sure, Life presents itself as more polished than Rob Epstein and Jeffrey Friedman's Howl (2010), starring James Franco (who has also portrayed Dean) as Beat poet Allen Ginsberg during his obscenity trial for the titular poem, if only because Corbijn manages to avoid a certain staginess.

In A Quiet Passion, Terence Davies» new biopic, Emily Dickinson, the famously reclusive poet, comes to life as an understated renegade, who deserts gendered orthodoxies to pursue her art.

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...

Set in the Sixties at an exclusive all - boys prep school, The Emperor's Club is immediately recognizable as another iteration of Dead Poets Society, even more so when one realizes that the film features the same quartet of student types (the troubled one, the trickster, the bookish one, the gregarious one — also the same breakdown you'll find in Stand By Me, come to think of it) and the same crinkly - eyed inspirational professor who finds a lesson for young lives in the heartening words of dead versifiers.

Luis Gnecco («No») is terrific as the larger - than - life poet determined to be a populist hero.

Shrouded in secrecy before its release, Jennifer Lawrence stars as a young woman settling into life with her husband (Javier Bardem), a poet with writer's block.

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.

In Wonder Wheel's first shots, the camera drifts past bathers in 1950s swimwear and finds Mickey's face, as he warns us that what we're about to see may not be entirely based in reality: «As a poet, I use symbols, and as a budding dramatist, I relish melodrama and larger - than - life characters.&raquas he warns us that what we're about to see may not be entirely based in reality: «As a poet, I use symbols, and as a budding dramatist, I relish melodrama and larger - than - life characters.&raquAs a poet, I use symbols, and as a budding dramatist, I relish melodrama and larger - than - life characters.&raquas a budding dramatist, I relish melodrama and larger - than - life characters.»

As in the sometimes impenetrable Sunset Song, Davies, the most interiorized of English filmmakers, shows his devotion through his fidelity to text, trying portray as much as he can of the poet's sad but notoriously uneventful lifAs in the sometimes impenetrable Sunset Song, Davies, the most interiorized of English filmmakers, shows his devotion through his fidelity to text, trying portray as much as he can of the poet's sad but notoriously uneventful lifas much as he can of the poet's sad but notoriously uneventful lifas he can of the poet's sad but notoriously uneventful life.

20,000 Days on Earth is a new documentary (if it can be entirely considered that) that follows novelist / screenwriter / poet / musician Nick Cave as he reaches and lives through his eponymous 20,000 th day living on the Earth.