Sentences with phrase «word poet amena»

Lugo will discuss his work as a potter, social activist, spoken word poet, and educator.

Clint Smith, acclaimed spoken word poet and award - winning educator, provided inspiration during his keynote, reminding the 400 + school board members and education leaders in the audience of the power of education and its role in helping students push back and guard against the things that are affecting their lives.

It's a very funny romantic comedy about a spoken word poet who thinks his girlfriend might be a serial killer.

What begins as a relatively generic documentary about a humble man, spoken word poet Shane Koyczan, who made his voice his means of living, builds towards an emphatic and emotionally resonant climax wherein Shane's estranged father listens to him use his gift to shed all his feelings about the man who was never there...

SLU programs bring in a younger generation of popular evangelical speakers, including Catalyst founder Brad Lomenick, evangelist D. A. Horton, and spoken - word poet Amena Brown.

But the derivation of the word poet reminds us that it comes from the Greek root of the verb to make — and it was used in Greek times to describe people who made pots and roads and laws and walls.

Spoken - word poet and author Amena Brown is well acquainted with the lies we tell ourselves and noise that's infiltrated our lives.

I had spoken word poets, Lego masters, dancers, and chess fiends.

I don't think poets ever expect to make money though — they are doing it for the love of words Some poets sell their chapbooks at live events and that's great as people have already heard the poem, but they are never going to make the bestseller lists Check out http://www.ornaross.com as Orna is a poet and has advice on this type of thing.

Not exact matches

Many great poets have the ability to use words that allow us to interpret what they're saying with our own experiences.

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.»

The poet's words were made more famous by that grinning green frog, Kermit, of The Muppets fame.

The intention of the poet to attach the words «vacuum» to «womb» and «torture» is as stark as their placements, one atop the other.

'» Then, with an unselfconscious humility, the poet witnesses to how he has received these words.

More a poet and preacher than a bureaucrat, John Paul has, in Weigel's words, one central theme: in Christ, «you are greater than you imagine, and greater than the late modern world has let you imagine.»

In constructing a black liberation theology, Jones» vision returns him, in the words of poet Langston Hughes, to «rivers ancient as the world and older than the flow of human blood in human veins.

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!

In the words of Indian poet Tagore, each child brings a «renewed message that God has not lost faith in mankind.»

Edwin Muir, a poet from the Orkney Islands spoke of the tragedy of there being nothing more than words in the Calvinist form of Christianity with which he was familiar:

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

Easy to marry as a poor girl» words wasted on this poet by his father.

the poet speaks the truth, the word of God says judge not lest thou be judged, this dynamic works in and on your life whether you believe in God or not.

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.»»

I did some research into how the word theopneustos was used in other Greek literature of the time, and without fail, it is used of poets and philosophers who seem to speak with a certain passion and urgency that makes people listen and obey what they are saying.

He uses it to connect with the story that he's come to tell them, seamlessly weaving together the words of Greek poets and his own gospel presentation.

The Jewish American poet, Emma Lazarus, gave classic expression to this idea in 1883 in words inscribed on the pedestal of the Statue of Liberty:

But as one comes to know the poet through the separate experience of a number of poems, so «out of the givers of the signs, the speakers of the words in lived life, out of the moment Gods there arises for us with a single identity the Lord of the voice, the One.»

This sort of despair is seldom seen in the world, such figures generally are met with only in the works of poets, that is to say, of real poets, who always lend their characters this «demoniac» ideality (taking this word in the purely Greek sense).

In making the word to become flesh the interpreter makes herself or himself into the word, takes the word as poem into her or his body, continues the creation process begun by the poet (Bozarth - Campbell, 52).

It is a land where alone one may understand the haunting sensuous beauty of the Bible, a land where poetry seems to spring from the stony hillsides, where poets lived and walked whose words are known and cherished more than those of any others, and, rendered into hosts of tongues of which they never heard, are loved and repeated the world around.

Tip your face to the heavy sky until you feel like a woman in a poem; surely a poet could spare a word or two for the tired thirties of womanhood and the sacred discipline of pausing in the midst of the rushing, for the snowflakes and the joy to gather in your hair like fleeting stars.

But language is what the poet has to work with, and so the poet is forced to take sometimes exaggerated, sometimes extreme steps to pierce the mundane, breaking up lines, using words in odd new contexts, relying on sound effects and packing the stanzas with sensuous images and fragments from scripture, and the common language of faith suddenly takes on new meaning through these odd juxtapositions.

Then he spoke of God as the unknown god whom they worshiped, quoting Greek poets to illustrate his Christian beliefs in words they could understand (see Acts 17:16 - 34).

After all, in the poets love has its priests, and sometimes one hears a voice which knows how to defend it; but of faith one hears never a word.

or even how a poet's hunt for words might arouse images at ease in sky.

After the King James Version rendered the two words «help meet,» poet John Dryden came along and hyphenated them, describing his wife as his tireless «help - meet.»

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.»

Poets Denise Levertov, Robert Bly and Wendell Berry and authors such as Frederick Buechner have led retreats providing haunting words, wild images, strange metaphors, soul food.

I could read poetry because it relaxes me before I go to sleep, or I could read listening for the Spirit in the poet's words.

In the poet's words, «New occasions teach new duties.

She gravitated to professors who shined the light on possibilities, devouring the words of Mormon poets and feminist historians.

The composer linked verses from World War 1 poet Wilfred Owen to the Latin text of the Mass for the Dead, dedicating his work, in Owen's words, to «Whatever shares / The eternal reciprocity of tears.»

In his 1936 essay «The Irrational Element in Poetry,» Stevens remarks that the poet uses his intuition both in the selection of the subject of a poem and in his selection of the right words or sounds.

After an elegant gloss of his own on John 3, the Scripture that inspired Vaughan, Hill conducts a well - paced close analysis of Vaughan's rhymes, leaving no doubt that the poet quite literally believed «his own words must be measured against, must chime faithfully with, the received words of Scripture.»

Let me then conclude with the words of Rabindranath Tagore, a great modern poet of India, to say what kind of feelings and excitement the venture of contextual theology could bring to our hearts:

He immediately sat down, and we sat in silence for another 15 minutes or so before another woman stood up and shared the words of poet and Quaker John Greenleaf Whittier:

Let me leave the last word to that master of double meaning, the poet and preacher John Donne, who concluded his final sermon with this sentence: «There we leave you in that blessed dependency, to hang upon him that hangs upon the cross.»

For the poet purchases the power of words, the power of uttering all the dread secrets of others, at the price of a little secret he is unable to utter... and a poet is not an apostle, he casts out devils only by the power of the devil.

And way too many of those poems are also celebrations of friends and family enjoying «good wine... delight in words» (would that the poet could be stirred to share a few with us) or «good dinner, wine, and music.»

That is, he understood the vocation of every true thinker to be much the same as the vocation of the true poet, or of any true artist: to bear witness to that haunting and penumbral interval that marks the difference between being and beings, and to attempt to keep it open in our thoughts and our words and our works.