She named an early solo exhibition The Battle of Faith and Doubt, and even if you don't think those terms are a binary, still her reference to the dark night of the soul, as a metaphor for artistic creation, is reminiscent of
lines by the poet from Soho and Lambeth — which sounds a lot like Lambent, come to think of it.
The lecture's title refers to
the lines by poet William Carlo Williams: It is difficult / to get the news / from poems / yet men die miserably every day / for lack / of what is found there.
Not exact matches
In the essay, Losana Boyd, the Director of Creative & Marketing Services at First Things, and a
poet, favorably reviewed The Eternal City
by Kathleen Graber, praising the
poet's fluent syntax, arresting imagery, and elegant, well - crafted
lines.
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.»»
A poem
by the American
poet Gene Derwood (l909 - l954), titled «With God Conversing,» contains these two
lines: «The gloomy silhouettes of wings we forged / With reason reasonless, are now enlarged.»
Equally refreshing are Laura's motherly desire to have twins (provoking Paterson's sudden awareness of twins throughout the film), and the love poems Paterson writes to his wife — gentle verses (composed
by real - life
poet Ron Padgett) which mention heaven, and include the remarkable
line, «unborn children fearing they will never see the light of day.»
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).
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.
Many of the best
poets and writers begin this way —
by collecting
lines and phrases over time.
Each
poet's task was to take a
line from an existing poem
by Ms. Brooks and create a new poem, in which each
line would end with one of the words from the original
line.
Details: An annual contest for poems of up to 80
lines on any subject, judged this year
by award - winning
poet Sinéad Morrissey.
But at its heart, it is more in
line with Dead
Poets Society, and
by the end this deceptively lightweight novel packs an unexpectedly ferocious punch.
That said, I still write very much like a
poet —
line by line.
The
line - up for the night also includes a performance
by punk
poet Paul Birtills and a set
by punk DJ Ne Mo..
Consisting of some 50,000 «distichs» or couplets (2 -
line verses), the Shahnameh is the world's longest epic poem written
by a single
poet.
This exhibition gathers Freilicher's paintings and drawings, as well as two videos
by Rudy Burckhardt, and features four vitrines containing photographs, book covers, letters, and manuscripts — some poems with
lines crossed out and handwritten additions in the margins — that point to the interrelated friendships between painter and
poets, and to the development of work at hand.
After Berriolo spoke,
poet Mónica De La Torre read a witty essay about
line, and
by the end of the performance, a new book had been created.
She has been called «a
poet of a painter»
by the New Yorker, and the exhibition title is a
line from a poem
by William Carlos Williams.
Katz was inspired
by poets like Frank O'Hara, who uses stripped - down language to arrive at
lines such as «I am stuck in traffic in a taxicab / which is typical / and not just of modern life...» (Song, 1960).
With or Without, 2016, Talley Dunn Gallery Alice, the
poet and the grasslands, 2012, Talley Dunn Gallery A Boy's Will, 2009, Dunn and Brown Contemporary
Line By Line, 2006, Dunn and Brown Contemporary Consider, 2003, Dunn and Brown Contemporary Linda Ridgway: Leap Year, 2000, Dunn and Brown Contemporary
Something similar occurs in John Ashbery's most recent book, Breezeway (2015), where the
poet uses
lines by younger
poets such as Todd Colby and Nicholas Hundley as epigrams.
According to the gallery, it's a paraphrase of a
line by the Spanish
poet Antonio Machado.
Notable examples include Still Water (The River Thames, for Example)(1999), in which images of the River Thames include numbers related to footnotes that provide a context and the artist's insight, and the Key and Cue series (1990s), which features aluminum columns printed with
lines of poetry
by Emily Dickinson, a
poet Horn claimed as an important influence.
This modern optimism is highlighted
by Charles Demuth's work «I Saw the Figure 5 in Gold», 1928 — not the only work on display that anticipates Pop Art — dedicated to the
poet William Carlos Williams — from the
lines «Among the rain and lights, I saw the figure 5, in gold, on a red firetruck...».
San Francisco
poet laureate Jack Hirschman was commissioned
by the Arts Center to write a long poem, «The Marioni
Line,» for the show's catalog.
The Wikipedia adds: «Annuit Coeptis and the other motto on the reverse of the Great Seal, Novus Ordo Seclorum, can both be traced to
lines by the Roman
poet Virgil.
Its original editors gave the title to their new scientific journal in celebration of a
line by British
poet William Wordsworth: «To the solid ground of nature trusts the Mind that builds for aye».
On several occasions during the interview Glaenzer quotes a passage from the poem «Steps»
by the German
poet Hermann Hesse, which he's handwritten across several sheets of plain white paper, revealing each
line one page at a time.
At 95, I think of myself as having journeyed through life as many different people, and I think of a
line from Antonio Machado, one of my favorite Spanish
poets: «The road is not the road; you make the road
by walking.»