Sentences with phrase «poets write»

«When poets write a poem, they don't really see words first... they first hear a word in their mind; they experience it as sound and feel something.

Instead, poets write for academic audiences and prizes.

To help students grapple with the complexities of identity, consider teaching one or more of the following poems from Facing History resources, in which poets write about the challenges they face navigating dual identities.

Having Spanish as a first language has also influenced my work, as I often write poems in Spanish and a lot of my favorite poets write in Spanish, as well.

Finally, all of these poets write within a culture in which physical science has replaced metaphysics as the model of the knowable.

Somewhere along the line, however, Prudentius seems to have disappeared from the view of poets writing in English.

A poet writing in the twentieth century A.D. may be a puny figure compared with the titanic stature of a Greek dramatist five centuries before Christ, and ethical insight can not be graded on the basis of the calendar.

The question of whether Radha was svakiya or parakiya became an important doctrinal issue for the medieval Vaisnava theologians, an issue which ultimately separated the orthodox from the Sahajiya Vaisnavas and marked a distinction between the Krishna - bhakti poets writing in Hindi and those writing in Bengali.

No rule can be final and complete; plainly enough, as the poet wrote, «new occasions teach new duties,» while «time makes ancient good uncouth.»

Pessoa wrote poems in the voices of four carefully defined alter egos; Cairns's pseudo-autobiography of Luz, «the greatest postmodern poet writing in Portuguese,» notes that he is «a devoted family man, a fan of American rhythm and blues, an accomplished cook, and a fiction.»

And to a basketball purist, that's like a singer hitting the perfect note or a poet writing the perfect line or a dancer hitting the perfect step.

Irish Poets Writing Hand out copies of this poetry starter.

Arc publishes contemporary poetry from new and established writers from the UK and abroad, specialising in the work of international poets writing in English and the work of overseas poets in translation.

But, as you will see in «Poets Writing Prose,» poets too are becoming a growing and vital voice in this emerging genre.

The line - up will consist of film, exhibitions, talks and debates, literature, music, politics, visual arts, fashion and cuisine, including: Light from the Middle East, an exhibition of contemporary photography from the Middle East, an evening of song with Emel Mathlouthi, a discussion of the role of art and culture in Syria with journalist Malu Halasa and an evening with poet Al Saddiq Al - Raddi whose work reflects his identity as an African poet writing in Arabic.

Put another way, Puder achieves remarkable abstractions within the confines of architectural forms, much like a poet writes verse in restricted form.

A sculptor, Jake Grossberg, who taught at Bard, said that I should write about art; he was the first to tell me that poets wrote criticism, and that I could do the same.

Gratitude, so the poet wrote, is the thanks we write in our hearts.

Not exact matches

If you're in the Bay Area, the poets will be on location this week to write poems for people in real time.

In the first century AD, Roman poet Ovid wrote the following: «There is more refreshment and stimulation in a nap, even of the briefest, than in all the alcohol ever distilled.»

«And now the one - eyed goofy, the black - sheep poet... has inadvertently struck it rich,» Harrison later wrote of his mid-life success.

Gladwell writes that a disproportionately large number of renowned people, from British prime ministers to famous poets, lost a parent while they were young.

As published July 25, 2013 in The Globe and Mail: by John Manley «No man is an island entire of itself,» the poet John Donne wrote four centuries ago.

The poets often wrote about it but now science claims it's true.

• The French poet and playwright Paul Claudel is, despite what many think unfortunate political views, still read «because of a rare quality: unflinching jubilance,» writes the poet Eric Ormsby in an essay on Claudel in the New Criterion.

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.

The poet is seen as confused, scared, overcomplicated, hidden behind his «wit,» and, finally, a nihilist altogether — a man who knows his religious faith «doesn't stand up to scrutiny,» and so writes «these screwed - up sonnets.»

In an earlier writing Milosz had shown himself to be aware that this was the key insight of Job, even if, in the poet's version of the story, God says things that are rather more severe than anything to be found in the book of Job.

In response to this new and, it seems, contrivedly obscure eclogue, Donald Hall writes, «When in the future flustered doctoral students confuse Auden and Austen, when Larkin becomes a small figure in the shadow of Hardy, Geoffrey Hill will remain the monumental English poet of the latter twentieth century.»

In 1823 Heinrich Heine, the German poet and journalist, wrote, «This was a prelude only, where books are being burnt, people will be burnt eventually.»

Just as a poet leaves the text to his readers, and they will often find meaning there that he never intended, Niebuhr's intententions when writing the prayer can be quite rightly discarded.

The nineteenth - century Italian poet Lampedusa wrote: «Unless we ourselves take a hand now, they'll foist a republic on us.

making copies was very expensive... etc etc.... second... stylistic and literary problems arises within the minds of those who lock themselves into thinking people can only write ONE way... I myself am a poet..

As for our country's moral plight: We once prided ourselves on endorsing the words of poet Emma Lazarus, who wrote the famous sonnet inscribed on the Statue of Liberty: «Keep, ancient lands, your storied pomp!

Every step an arrival, as the poet Denise Levertov wrote.

«Anyone who does just a little digging on Bethke's YouTube channel or on Google will quickly learn that this young poet is a conservative Christian and member of the Mars Hill Church led by controversial pastor Mark Driscoll,» writes Patheos blogger Brian Kirk, a Missouri - based pastor.

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 Arab poets were generally bilingual, writing in both Sindhi and Arabic.

In addition, and perhaps most importantly, Virgil was a poet who wrote poetry as history, and Dante followed this example as well.

I first started claiming the label my first year in graduate school (3/4 years ago) when I had to write a paper on Queer Theory and studied Adrienne Rich, who was a queer feminist poet in the late 80s / early 90s.

Experimental groups have proved the point, at least to their own satisfaction — witness poet Gary Snyder, whose writing reflects a vision gained in part from participation in such groups.

We need poets who write good poems, engineers who build sound bridges, bakers who make delicious bread.

In this world of betrayal,» Salvadoran poet Ramon del Campoamor writes, «there is nothing true or false.

Chesterton identified the danger, in the words of a thoroughly sane poet (writing in 1929):

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.»»

But the Christian poet doesn't have it easy these days — poets, says Grindal, write in images, and a church whose language has become sociological and managerial («The Lord is my corporate manager») is asking the poet to write hymns from abstractions.

Mariani is one of America's distinguished Catholic poets and has written the standard biographies of many moderns, including William Carlos Williams, Hart Crane, John Berryman, and Robert Lowell.

There are some parallels with other nonacademic American poets — William Carlos Williams, for instance, who practiced medicine and delivered thousands of New Jersey babies while writing the American epic Paterson.

He «adores,» he says, such poets as Richard Hugo and Linda Pastan, and as a young poet he began trying to write in the style of his antithesis, Robert Creeley.

About this Mingana writes, «It is the constant tradition in the Eastern church that the Apostle Thomas evangelized India, and there is no historian, no poet, no breviary, no liturgy, and no writer of any kind who, having the opportunity of speaking of Thomas, does not associate his name with India.