Sentences with phrase «of good poets»

I can not tell you why it took me so long to come to poetry, but for the sake of full disclosure, I'll just say that I have always, since childhood, had a secret certainty that poetry is at the apex of literary endeavor, and because of this I am rather afraid of good poets.

In the more expansive poems in the book, Wiman often turns directly to his God in ways that few of our best poets are willing to do, even if they are believers.

Many of the best poets and writers begin this way — by collecting lines and phrases over time.

Many of the best poets, authors, and famous people throughout the ages have given us quotes about life and how they perceived it.

One of America's most acclaimed scholars and critics, Bloom offers his assessment of the best poets from the 14th century (Chaucer) to the 20th (Hart Crane is the final entry).

In addition, the skills and objectives of the best poets are the skills and objectives most vital in the writing of «fact» pieces.

I used to infuriate Lawrence Weiner by saying to him, «I don't know how good a sculptor you are, Lawrence, but you're a hell of a good poet.»

Not exact matches

To compile its list of outstanding EMBAs, Poets & Quants extended invitations to 60 of the top - ranked EMBA programs (including 12 programs from outside the United States) to submit one nominee who exemplified the best of their respective schools.

As the poets say, the best laid schemes of mice and men often go awry.

«Some schools long ago saw the need to travel to the coast to get a sense of the Silicon Valley - Bay Area ecosystem; more and more are following their lead, making such pilgrimages de rigeur for the best programs,» according to Poets and Quants.

I have a lot of tricks to get those first few words on the page, maybe the best one is something I heard from a poet during his reading; «To cure writer's block just lower your standards.»

Large biofuel firms like Abengoa Bioenergy U.S., Iberdrola U.S.A., Pacific Ethanol, and POET joined the pledge, while some of the biggest agriculture firms — like Cargill and Monsanto (MON)-- did as well.

That old cliché, «you get what you pay for,» may well ring true in a new ranking by Poets & Quants of the business schools in North America with the best Executive MBA programs.

Poets & Quants» annual list of the 40 best business professors under 40 highlights Ing - Haw Cheng, assistant professor of business administration.

Additionally, why does my basket of people — skeptics — score better in math, science, literature and history and contain a majority of the world «a artists, poets and musicians?

Since its launch in 2005, the event has hosted such «page» notables as Billy Collins, Dana Gioia, and Philip Levine, as well as a tier - one lineup of stage poets that includes Bob Holman, Sarah Kay, and Andrea Gibson.

It is no accident that Percy summons Flannery O'Connor to such questions as well; but unlike her, he does not anchor his response in St. Augustine and St. Paul (we have here no abiding place) nor in St. Thomas, whose argument is insistent that the poet's, the artist's, responsibility is to the good of the thing being made, not with the correction of appetites in his audience.

Poets and artists, literary and art historians, and lovers of poetry and art will find in Trapani's study of Maritain a satisfyingly spacious and clear but non-reductive account of the ineffable experience that art, at its best, evokes.

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.

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.

• Edwin Muir, The Complete Poems: As far as I can tell, Muir is the least - read great poet in English of the twentieth century; he is mostly remembered, it seems, for his translations of Kafka (which are immeasurably better than anyone else's).

When the attempt was made to apply it to individual destiny (which was scarcely in the minds of the earlier prophets), in the sense that the wicked are punished by misfortune and the good rewarded by prosperity, it appeared palpably untrue, not only to the sceptical author of Ecclesiastes, but also to the far profounder poet of the Book of Job.

When he relates his one adult visit to her» he by then a rising literary lion, she a well - known poet» Oz recognizes her flat as the home of a religious woman but conveys little sense of what that might mean.

the Greek lyric poet Tyrtaeus wrote, «The man who risks his life in battle has the best chance of saving it; the one who flees to save it is the most likely to lose it.»

The Sikh scriptures, the Guru Granth Sahib or Adi Granth, which was originally compiled by the 5th Guru, Guru Arjan in 1604 — in the same year as work began on the Authorised or King James Version of the Bible — contains devotional hymns by Hindu and Muslim poets and saints as well as by the Gurus.

Persian poetry under the Mughals reached a high degree of perfection with famous Indian poets who could stand comparison with the best poets of Iran.

English poet Stevie Smith puts it well in her poem, «The Repentance of Lady T»:

I have stated that i am 25 many times, well, before i was 24 — but that was before i turned 25... and so i have stated also many times that i am not a proper HIPPIE of the age... but am infact just a bestowed man of a t!tle, known as hippie — but i said no, being i have respect for the real hippies — said lets make it hippy and since i became a poet — Hippypoet... Get Over It!

Edited by Gregory Wolfe and Dana Gioia, it will mark a triumph for Trower's efforts, and a revival for Thompson, whom Gioia calls «the best Catholic poet of the latter half of the 20th century.»

Within this frame, these nameless Hebrew poets succeeded in giving supreme expression to the basic rhythms of inner life: bleak despair in the face of accumulated disaster, stubborn hope, gratitude, exultation, rhapsodic celebration of the splendors of creation, contentment in the quiet joys of the good life.

It was no surprise to me that the modern poets eschew rhyme and metrical regularity, but it was a surprise that only two of the twenty - three earlier poets» Campion and Coleridge» knew better than to render the brawny Hebrew of the psalms in rhyme and meter.

The compiler, Laurance Wieder, simply chooses what he considers the best poetic rendition in English of each psalm» whether from a poet as old as Miles Coverdale or as new as Laurance Wieder.

Seeing all those thousands of bureaucrats, military officers, lawyers, and hangers - on, the Roman poet Horace knew too well the world in which Astrue dwells.

Your exegetical answers speak to the metaphysician and poet in me as well as to the scholar who loves and wishes to obey the Voice of the One.

The memorials for Shakespeare, Austen and Wilde --- as well as the tombs of Chaucer and Dickens - can be found in Poets» Corner, a popular area of the church that pays tribute to the nation's long legacy of literary greatness.

One of his novices, Ernesto Cardenal, was himself to become a poet of stature in his native Nicaragua as well as one of his country's most vociferous social critics.

It would also be a prodigious stupidity to deny that pagan nations en masse, as well as individual pagans, have performed amazing exploits which have prompted and will prompt the enthusiasm of poets; to deny that paganism exhibits examples of achievement which aesthetically can not be sufficiently admired.

YOu quote the bible well, but can you quote Shakespear or any of the other great poets of the Romantic era?

The poet and artist, as well as the psychologist, sometimes make use of an association of symbols quite different from that of controlled scientific and philosophical thought.

Like any good poet she uses rich imagery - animal and plants and spices to describe her love, and the message is there for all who will read: this is not a woman who will be stopped in her pursuit of what she wants.

Mary Karr, one of the writers Gioia mentions, shares this belief as well, confessing, «Poets were my first priests, and poetry itself my first altar.»

The poet, as represented by his narrative voice, courts the danger courted by Icarus, Phaethon, and Bellerophon — the danger of harboring and enacting an ambition («to soar / Above the Ionian mount») that, however fueled by good intentions, passes over into pride.

Dreamer as this poet was, he could well picture glowing ideals which the practical men of affairs might struggle toward only as time and circumstance would permit.

This was inescapable in view of Israel's concept of the intimate relationship between God and nature; but at the same time it imparted to their understanding of the inanimate world, and to their poetic expression of it, a beauty and elevation, and withal a majesty such as, one may venture the judgment, to rank them with the best poets of any age.

One of the poets well expressed this, remarking of the hostile gentile nations: «For their rock is not as our rock, even our enemies themselves being judges» (Deut.

The entire Granth is a very substantial body of poetry, consisting mainly of the writings of Guru Nanak and his first four successors, to which were added poems of a dozen or more, one - time famous saints, or bhagats, including Ramananda, Kabir and the well - known Maratha poet, Namdev.

To help me with my task, I have explored the teachings of my own tradition, the writings of the rabbis, as well as the wisdom of scientists, philosophers and poets through the ages.

Paideia, after all, also involved inquiry, especially into texts (classically, Homer; then also the poets; then the philosophers, especially Plato), the study of which was deemed to be the indirect way to come to know the Good itself.

The sermon is uninspiring, the congregation is asleep, but suddenly the poet catches a glimpse of something beyond the ordinary, flat experience of worship in a «place [in which] the Good News... dropped down some black hole.»

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.