Sentences with phrase «on the poems alone»

When you translate that into money, it means that the publishers have made # 120,000 on the poems alone, not counting the personal profiles.

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It was written in Latin, but argued that vernacular poetry, which had only begun in Italy 150 years before with the poems of St. Francis, was worthy of all the consideration previously bestowed on Latin alone.

If we believe in a God, it should be based on our God - given reason and the same joy we experience when alone in nature, reading a poem or listening to Mozart.

In one poem an 85 - year - old man, who has spent his many years beating «black and blue» the land, «warped inside / And given to watching, sullen - eyed, / Love still - born,» now sits alone in a corner before the fire, with nothing left to dream on but the self - delusions of his past.

Among the other fiction films to look for in theaters or on VOD: John Michael McDonagh's Calvary, in which Brendan Gleeson gives a beautifully modulated performance as a dedicated priest who is no match for the disillusionment of his parishioners and the rage of another inhabitant of his Irish seaside village, determined to take revenge against the priesthood for the sexual abuse he suffered as a child; the desultory God Help the Girl, the debut feature by Stuart Murdoch (of Belle and Sebastian), all the more charming for its refusal to sell its musical numbers; Tim Sutton's delicate, impressionistic Memphis, a blues tone poem that trails contemporary recording artist Willis Earl Beal, playing a character close to himself who's looking for inspiration in a legendary city that's as much mirage as actuality; and two horror films, Jennifer Kent's uncanny, driving psychodrama The Babadook, with a remarkable performance by child actor Noah Wiseman, and Ana Lily Amirpour's less sustained A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night, which nonetheless generates some powerful political metaphors.

His first «published» work was a stapled collection of Maths solutions and poems (he figured nobody would pay for his poems alone) he sold to his classmates in Grade 7, and spent the proceeds on ice cream and comics.

Many of these are owned by the Chinati Foundation in Marfa, Texas, and by the Stedelijk Museum in Amsterdam, making the opportunity to see forty - three of Andre's poems and works on paper in the back room of Andrea Rosen Gallery worth the trip alone.