Sentences with phrase «way as a poet»

She finds that she can stay sane this way as a poet, mother, and human being.

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As a poet, Ted Hughes had an acute sensitivity to the way in which constraints on self - expression, like the disciplines of meter and rhyme, spur creative thought.

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.

True, the modern poet — as exemplified, in widely divergent ways, by a Joyce and a Kafka — has given himself in large measure to a reversal of our mythical traditions.

As Tolkien scholars have noted, it was from Cædmon's hymn that Tolkien retrieved the term «Middle - earth,» which was the poet's way of describing the habitation God made for humanity.

As the American poet and essayist Mark Signorelli has written: «Once it became common to doubt or to deny that man had any essential inclination toward beauty or truth, the purpose of making objects intended to unite beauty and truth in various ways was no longer evident.»

But I would appeal to any scientist who happens to be reading this book to think seriously that people such as poets, artists of every kind, mystics and indeed ordinary people of faith may be receiving truth in an entirely different way from that to which he is accustomed.

I am first defining the poetic function in a negative manner, following Roman Jakobson, as the inverse of the referential function understood in a narrow descriptive sense, then in a positive way as what in my volume on metaphor I call the metaphorical reference.7 And in this regard, the most extreme paradox is that when language most enters into fiction — e.g., when a poet forges the plot of a tragedy — it most speaks truth because it redescribes reality so well known that it is taken for granted in terms of the new features of this plot.

As is often the way with brainy, moody teenagers, I had come to believe in the gospel according to Jack Kerouac, Dizzy Gillespie, and a hodgepodge of Japanese poets, absurdist playwrights, and existentialist philosophers whose works I'd found on adjacent shelves on the second floor of the public library.

It is almost as if he wanted to find a way back again to the experience of the child's first amazement before the mystery of the world and to linger there forever, speaking a language of pure naming, pure invocation — the language of Adam or of the natural poet.

There are as many ways of going about this as there are Christian poets, for what a lyric poem offers is a personal focus, and what we get from various poems is what Philip Wheelwright calls «perspectival individuality» on reality.3.

For those Village residents not on the municipal water supply, the point - of - entry treatment systems (POETs) that have been installed work in the same way as the GAC on the municipal supply and effectively remove PFOA from the water.

As he says: «The scientist is part poet, and by pleasure drawn from new ways to express old truths, the poet is part scientist.»

There were tough times along the way — when she only had a few hundred dollars to her name — but thanks to her hard work, persistence, and love of her craft, she was able to make a name for herself as a modern - day poet.

The type of character I have long been waiting to see onscreen, he's both familiar and novel, and his presence gives way to moments heretofore unthinkable in mainstream cinema, like the museum scene, which would make Martinican poet Aimé Césaire proud, as it seems like the direct illustration of a paragraph from «Discourse on Colonialism.»

Mann joins Paul Greengrass and Doug Liman as one of the finest visual poets of the fall, able to sketch in brash, reptilian movements the ways that violence is ultimately as doomed an endeavour as love, loyalty, faith, or vigour.

It evokes the feeling one gets as one listens to a bad poet trying to explain her bad poetry in the ineloquent way of ineloquent people trying to convince you to like something awful.

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.

This is a great way to help model a variety of styles of poetry reading as well as how poets hear poems in their heads.

Celebrate «Take Your Poet to School Week» (grades K — 12): As a way to engage students in learning about specific poets and poems, you can participate in Take Your Poet to School Week, which happens the first week of National Poetry Month.

However, this might change soon, as my friend the writer, poet and creative thinking coach Orna Ross has just recommended to me a voice - activated writing software package that sounds a great way of speeding up the writing part.

I fellow poet put up your address as a possible way of getting published.

Writing as though we are observing Shakespeare and his circle of friends, patrons, managers, and fellow actors and writers, Ackroyd is able to see Shakespeare's genius from within, so we feel that Ackroyd the writer merges with Shakespeare the writer, the poet, the man; and thus with great sympathy and clarity we experience the way in which Shakespeare worked.

They're my way of dressing and undressing the soul, as the poet George Herbert advises us to do.

I find myself trying to read as much poetry as I can as slowly as I can as a way to study the poets who've come before me.

As I grew up, I read those poets» works, and as a young man, I imitated their way of writinAs I grew up, I read those poets» works, and as a young man, I imitated their way of writinas a young man, I imitated their way of writing.

Kasischke, a National Books Critics Circle Award - winning poet, slowly draws readers into this twisty, stream - of - consciousness narrative, and readers discover layers upon layers of guilt and denial as reality gives way to the tricks of the mind.

The first is the easy way out — resorting to the vanity press (or its corollary, self - publishing) where «quality» has little relevance as long as the poet is prepared to pay for the privilege of having his work published.

Whitman's stature as a channeller poet who aims to express, but not contain his contemporaries in «Song of Myself», for instance, is also similar to the way in which the figures in this exhibition act as vessels.

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.

As a way of honoring those collectors who have made generous gifts to the Museum in recent years, Arts & Letters commissioned a new song by renowned composer Robert Beaser and poet Daniel Mark Epstein entitled Vision at Dawn, which premiered at this event.

Abstract Expressionist painters commonly spoke of being «in» their work, but as the poet Frank O'Hara observed, the Combines» call to explore their every aspect offered viewers a way to be «in» them as well.

During the hour, he called numerous celebrated intellectuals such as composer John Cage, science fiction writer Arthur C. Clarke, futurist Herman Kahn, artist Joseph Beuys, novelist Jerzy Kosinski, poet Michael McClure, and asked, in various ways, the following:

One particular influence was poet Charles Olson, who, in his essay «Projective Verse,» qualifies poetic language as «energy transferred from where the poet got it... all the way over to, the reader... a high - energy construct and, at all points, an energy - discharge.»

qualifies poetic language as «energy transferred from where the poet got it... all the way over to, the reader... a high - energy construct and, at all points, an energy - discharge.»

May Occupy Rail be on its way to establish a firmament of arts and culture where writers and artists of all sorts can create, as written by my friend, the poet Vincent Katz, in his essay Filling the Emptiness quoting Edwin Denby, «the living images of real life.»

As the poet John Ashbery once said: «Most reckless things are beautiful in some way, and recklessness is what makes experimental art beautiful, just as religions are beautiful because of the strong possibilities that they are founded on nothing.&raquAs the poet John Ashbery once said: «Most reckless things are beautiful in some way, and recklessness is what makes experimental art beautiful, just as religions are beautiful because of the strong possibilities that they are founded on nothing.&raquas religions are beautiful because of the strong possibilities that they are founded on nothing.»

As a poet, I'm utterly intrigued by the way Liz can stay with a practice rather than fixate upon an idea.

In this way, Koestenbaum's re-appraisal of the now - canonical poet strikes us as both novel and true, for he recognizes that timelessness isn't a quality anyone can accurately estimate in advance of time's having passed.

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

In the same way that visual poets such as Ian Hamilton Finlay use words and their physical appearance as building blocks, her starting points are pigment and panel.

«We lack a Terra Britannica, as it were: a gathering of terms for the land and its weathers,» he wrote in a beautiful essay in The Guardian, «-- terms used by crofters, fishermen, farmers, sailors, scientists, miners, climbers, soldiers, shepherds, poets, walkers and unrecorded others for whom particularised ways of describing place have been vital to everyday practice and perception.»

Eventually, it makes its way to the more routine business at hand — reviewing the week's blawg postings — but not without a nod to lawyers who have served, such as lawyer / blogger / soldier Phillip Carter, and not without this moving Haiku from lawyer / blogger / poet David Giacalone:

As a trained and published poet, she loves discovering new ways to use her writing as a tool to further the education of otherAs a trained and published poet, she loves discovering new ways to use her writing as a tool to further the education of otheras a tool to further the education of others.