Sentences with phrase «well as a poet»

A wit as well as a poet, Patterson quipped, «I'd probably be better than the stuntman when it comes to going down, though.»

On balance, the book is a friendly, down - to - earth introduction to physics suitable for stockbrokers, estate agents, tax collectors, train spotters — as well as poets.

experienced health care professional in multiple areas (clinician, professor, reseacher as well as poet and artist and lover of music.

2 X 50 Years ends with a moving tribute to French film criticism — using that term broadly enough to include precursors as well as poets, art critics, and filmmaker - theorists — by furnishing us with a honor roll of 15 individuals, from Denis Diderot to Serge Daney, each of whom is accorded a portrait, a page of text, and an offscreen recitation of a brief passage read by Mieville or Godard.

One can listen, free of charge, to the voices of contemporary English - language poets, as well as poets from the past.

Aemilia was first identified as the Dark Lady by the historian A. L. Rowse, but her status is by no means conclusive, resting mainly on her Italian heritage and dark hair (sonnet 127), on her musical ability (sonnet 128) and her involvement with another man as well as the poet (sonnet 152).

Rankine, winner of the Jackson Poetry Prize and chancellor of the Academy of American Poets, is playwright and essayist as well as poet, and all three forms are present in her second, galvanizing «American Lyric,» following Don't Let Me Be Lonely (2004).

Alongside painters like Lois Dodd, Alex Katz, and Larry Rivers, as well as poets like Kenneth Koch, James Schuyler, and Peter Schjeldahl, Diamond worked at the margins of the city at a time when light and space were in ample supply.

O'Hara, an art critic and curator as well as poet, helped set up The New American Painting, a 1958 touring exhibition that awed Europeans with abstract expressionism.

In the United States, he counted among his friends the leaders of American modernism, artists such as Joseph Stella, John Sloan, John Marin, Marsden Hartley, Georgia O'Keeffe, and Alfred Stieglitz, as well as the poets Hart Crane and E.E. Cummings.

e.e. cummings was a painter as well as a poet, and his work will be on view at the new Whitney when it opens on May 1.

MT: You are a painter as well as a poet; in fact, the covers of your books feature your artwork.

I would like to thank the participant artists: Lynda Benglis, John Bock, Lee Bul, Cameron Gainer, Candida Höfer, Bill Jensen, Michael Joo, Deborah Kass, Alex Katz, Ben Keating, Glenn Ligon, Chris Martin, Daniel Joseph Martinez, Donald Moffett, Roxy Paine, G.T. Pellizzi, Joanna Pousette - Dart, Dorothea Rockburne, Will Ryman, Cindy Sherman, Do Ho Suh, Superflex, Tunga, Not Vital, and Joe Zucker, as well as the poets --(who will be reading their commissioned works on July 17, 2014 at 6:30 pm)-- Paolo Javier, Rachel Levitsky, Barry Schwabsky, Mina Pam Dick, and the dancers Sarah Maxfield, Aretha Aoki, and Emily Wexler — who will be performing the same evening as the poets — for their unflinching enthusiasm and support of such an atypical presentation.

One comes away from the exhibition with a Neruda-esque sense of absence, desire, and hope, as well as the poet's love for the sea and all things maritime (as though one has just returned from Casa de Isla Negra itself), mingled with lightness of spirit imported from the Far East.

The exhibition will feature works created by community members alongside commissioned pieces by visual artists Ife Nii Owoo, Diane Pieri, Barbara Bullock, and Pew Fellow Benjamin Volta, as well as poets and Pew Fellows Sonia Sanchez and Yolanda Wisher.

Grove published most of the American Beats of the 1950s (Jack Kerouac, William Burroughs, and Allen Ginsberg) as well as poets like Frank O'Hara of the New York School and poets associated with Black Mountain and the San Francisco Renaissance such as Robert Duncan.

Not exact matches

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

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.

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.

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.

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'sAs 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'sas 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 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 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.

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

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!

But in order to add my two cents as well [Okay, okay — I know here comes the poet (ess)-RSB-, how about, «Gaining Insight into the Divide between Right and Rite»?

But well known to some as the seasoned British poet and satirist, ten years older than Astrue, whose poems will break your heart in one line and chill you to the marrow in the next, and whose books Astrue used to keep on his nightstand.

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.

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.

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.

But as Frank Lloyd Wright said, an architect should first be a poet, and the good poet observes closely and listens carefully.

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.

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

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.

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.

Drawing on novelists, poets, as well as Scripture, Trotter leads us through a perilous issue with a result that opens up new options for religious expressions, as well as warnings about traditional religious language.

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.

Thus too the demoniacal may express itself as contempt for men — a contempt, be it observed, which does not cause a man to behave contemptibly, since on the contrary he counts it his forte that he is better than all who condemn him — In view of such cases the poets ought to lose no time in sounding the alarm.

What if the woman is also a poet, death comes early, and her husband is a famous poet as well?

Joseph Smith ancestors are along with Eight U.S. presidents are known to be descended from Mayflower passengers, and a number of other famous people including astronauts, poets, politicians, actors and actresses, directors, inventors and others are descendants as well.

An American poet (F. Bland Tucker) has translated part of the ancient Christian document known as the Epistle to Diognetus, using these words: «He [God] came to win men by good - will, for force is not of God.»

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.