Sentences with phrase «more as a poet»

But I was initially drawn to her more as a poet.

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You'll find a vibrant cultural scene in this city, home to artists, authors, poets, musicians, and more, as well as great restaurants and lively nightlife.

Poets like Wordsworth see the human person as capable of communing with the whole of reality, or at least with aspects in a deeper, more profound way.

And though very often it is literal light, it is also the wisdom of the poet who helps us to understand more deeply what it is to be human, just as our Lord himself took flesh to do.

The choice of the poet is even more remarkable, as is also the treatment.

Humanly speaking his destruction is the most certain of all things — and the despair in his soul fights desperately to get leave to despair, to get, if you will, repose for despair, the consent of his whole personality to despair, so that he would curse nothing and nobody more fiercely than him who attempted (Or it may be the attempt) to prevent him from despairing, as the poet's poet so capitally, so incomparably expresses it in Richard II, Act 3, Scene Z:

The poets who came of age after the modernist revolution, on the other hand, have been more cautious, second - guessing, self - conscious; and as a contemporary poet has complained, one result of modernism is that «generation after generation of poets have had confidence in their place undermined.

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....

Poets, on the other hand, can more easily think beyond such limits — reaching, as they do, for mythic wholeness.

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.

As Canadian poet Shane Koyczan stood on the stage and recited his poem, We Are More, I let the tears stream down my cheeks unimpeded.

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.

Classically trained poets and writers at the time would have been exposed to a few sources that painted ancient Romans as just the sort of people who would vomit just to eat more.

Krokidas is instead more concerned with capturing the birth of a movement through the ultimate loss of innocence, suggesting that the incident was as formative for the three poets as their time at Columbia.

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

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.

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.

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.

As David Staebler — provincial talk - show host, would - be poet and philosopher of the nighttime airwaves — Nicholson delivers a more than adequate performance; when does he ever not?

Tempting as it is to describe Samuel Fuller as the cinema's brute poet, the three films included on The Criterion Collection's fifth Eclipse series («The First Films of Samuel Fuller») encourage a more multifaceted reading.

The effect was to set people free for a new and more oppressive bondage, unrestrained by the custom and ceremony from which, as the Irish poet William Butler Yeats reminded us, innocence and beauty come to enrich our lives.

There are going to be (usually minor) differences of spacing, etc., but I as long as the relation of words to whitespace is more or less the same, I can sleep easily knowing that I've done justice to poem and the poet.

Diane Ackerman typically takes as her subjects some of the more beautiful, mesmerizing, and sigh - inducing things on this earth, training her poet's pen on the magic of our five senses (A Natural History of the Senses), the mysteries of the brain (An Alchemy of Mind, 2004), the majesty of her garden (Cultivating Delight, 2001), the ecstasy and transcendence of play, (Deep Play, 1999), the activates of animals (The Moon By Whale Light, 1991), and romantic love (A Natural History of Love, 1990).

As more and more self - publishing and digital publishing opportunities open for indie authors, poets have so far been left out in the cold due to the constraints of file conversion necessary for publishing poetry on e-readers.

Most poets self - publish their poems as a chapbook — a smaller book, normally around 25 to 60 pages, well - suited for smaller print runs and more affordable to produce.

The New Yorker's «Book Bench» blog points out that Assassin of Secrets lifts so many passages from other sources that the book is more of a «pastiche or collage, rather than a «novel,» as we properly understand the word» and that Q.R. Markham (the pseudonym for Quentin Rowan), who is a poet and part owner of a bookstore in Williamsburg, a section of Brooklyn, may have consciously perpetrated an elaborate hoax.

Although opposed by Locke, Berkeley, Hume, Benthan, and Mill as empiricists regarding the origin of knowledge, they were more directly opposed to the romanticists - Rousseau, Fichte, Schelling, Schleiermacher, and Nietzsche, including many British poets and American transcendentalists, notably Emerson.

He owns and manages APS Books, publishing more than 30 other indie writers, poets and photographers as well as his own work.

Central Java's royal city of Solo (Surakarta) has long cultivated its reputation as the heartland of refined Javanese culture, home to princes and poets, sacred and mystical dances performed by elegant beauties, and shadowy tales of the wayan kulit reflecting the heavens and more terrestrial affairs.

Admire the statue of Albrecht Rodenbach, Flemish poet and leader in the revival of Flemish literature, but more noteworthy as a symbol of the Flemish movement.

It appears Richard Prince, the provocative artist whose work draws on topics such as sexy nurses, Marlboro ads, and Instagram, may have in his possession a letter essential to understanding one of the most beloved poets of the last century.Some back... Read More

Read more of our thread on memory as theme and strategy in conversations and Backstories with painters Paul Behnke, Emilia Dubicki, Alan Feltus and Stuart Shils; poets Carl Phillips and Katie Ford; and photographers Jessica Auer and Stan Strembicki, here.

Though an admirer of figures such as De Kooning and Warhol, Brianard was more at home socially and artistically with the likes of the New York School Poets.

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.

Author and educator Mónica de la Torre will use Josiah McElheny's Prismatic Park as a stage in her Poets House artist residency from September 27 - October [Read More]

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.

Though more closely identified with the San Francisco Beat artists and poets of the late 1950s and early 1960s, DeFeo also looked to the Surrealists a generation older than she, and drew from artists such as Yves Tanguy, Marcel Duchamp, and Man Ray, whom she once called her «north star.

It was the writings of Spanish novelist Javier Marías, one of Redonda's more recent sovereigns, and Marías's own eclectic choice of courtiers (including film director Pedro Almodóvar and English novelist AS Byatt) that inspired Chambers with his imaginary court of 101 different ethnicities, cultural affiliations (carefully indicated by clothing and hairstyles) and professions - not just poets, philosophers, artists and writers, but also patients, pharmacists, harlots and «bums».

He professes a love for Kris Kristofferson and Johnny Cash — as opposed to Cage and Merzbow — but his band sound more like Wire with a dash of late - 70s punk - poet Patrik Fitzgerald.

She produces work in the collectives The National Bitter Melon Council and Plotform, as well as Platform2: Art and Social Engagement (through 2013), and sustains a solo and collaborative practice with poets, artists, media activists, farmers, chefs, and more.

Call him a painter, a poet and a dreamer; as a committed communicator, he is all of these and more.

The accompanying unrelated archival texts are interesting as objects, relating to poet Henry Chopin, but leave the viewer more interested in Chopin than Vonna - Michell.

His unique style on stage as preacher / hipster, radical dharma - wit - yogin, and more increasingly the lone poet with cowboy - inflected voice, feels like vital transmission.

Poets have been a vital force in the art world since at least Baudelaire's day, but more recently they have been infiltrating major contemporary art surveys (such as the 2015 New Museum Triennial) and fairs.

As poet and painter Elise Asher observed of lesbianism in the forties, «compared to other women, lesbians had force and aggression when they go together — since women had to insist more, this was an advantage.

The image of Roy Lichtenstein as a lyricist of Middle America — a poet of comic books, car parts, True Romance — could hardly be more wrong.

Charles Olson, a second generation American modernist poet, was credited with bridging the gap between such authors as Ezra Pound and William Carlos Williams, and New American poets such as the New York School, Black Mountain School, Beats, and the San Francisco Renaissance.Read more

As Schimmel says, «these sculptors work more the way poets work.»

Artist and activist Jimmie Durham (b. 1940) has worked as a visual artist, performer, essayist, and poet for more than forty - five years.

She would stubbornly pursue her own quiet «tentativeness» (as the poet and art critic John Ashbery once put it), just as she would soon marry a businessman, move out of bohemia, build a house overlooking the ocean near the Hamptons, raise a child and pursue a more conventional upper middle class lifestyle.