Sentences with phrase «word poet who»

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

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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!

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.

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).

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.

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

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.»

Drawing on the words of the poet René Char as he tracked his own discovery of it during his days fighting for it in the French resistance, Arendt defines this public treasure in the language of those 18th century American revolutionaries who were willing to die for it: «the public happiness», or for the French revolutionaries: «public freedom», for Rousseau «popular sovereignty».

Kamilah Aisha Moon, also a poet, gave the dedication, including words drawn from Whitman, while Broadway star Billy Porter, who won the Tony for his role in «Kinky Boots,» was the program's energetic host.

Let's see I am 6» 0 painter and poet who is seeking his muse for field trips to the stars, record store buys, private jazz sessions for close friends Spoken word poetry and intellectual discussions on the state of artistic endeavors.

Once upon a midnight dreary, while I pondered, weak and weary... Arriving in theaters this weekend is James McTeigue's The Raven, his new dark thriller about poet Edgar Allan Poe on a hunt to stop a murderer who is following his words.

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...

Set in the Sixties at an exclusive all - boys prep school, The Emperor's Club is immediately recognizable as another iteration of Dead Poets Society, even more so when one realizes that the film features the same quartet of student types (the troubled one, the trickster, the bookish one, the gregarious one — also the same breakdown you'll find in Stand By Me, come to think of it) and the same crinkly - eyed inspirational professor who finds a lesson for young lives in the heartening words of dead versifiers.

Following the opening credits, we learn that in 1989, Ochs, who the film's program notes indicate was also among that group of Americans, gave the poets a list of ordinary words.

Though Ewing, a writer, poet, artist, and sociologist, had many vocations that she pursued while at HGSE, the focus of her dissertation research was helped by the words of her adviser, Professor Sara Lawrence - Lightfoot: «Remember what sent you here and who sent you.»

Candy Royalle who is a spoken word artist, a poet, did a poetry slam performance in the hall for the whole year group.

Whether we who are out in the wilds of Indy - land are authors, or writers, or poets, or creators, or word - curators, or * insert preferred tag here * is irrelevant.

On the coldest day of winter he was barefoot, a philosopher and poet with ideas and words to share with anyone who would listen.

The poet who runs it calls it an incubator — a place to test your words on an audience.

The New Yorker's «Book Bench» blog points out that Assassin of Secrets lifts so many passages from other sources that the book is more of a «pastiche or collage, rather than a «novel,» as we properly understand the word» and that Q.R. Markham (the pseudonym for Quentin Rowan), who is a poet and part owner of a bookstore in Williamsburg, a section of Brooklyn, may have consciously perpetrated an elaborate hoax.

Though the word «journalism» has been eschewed by academics, poets and novelists, Talese, along with New Yorker writer John McPhee, who says he's an «old» (meaning traditional) journalist, frequently refer to themselves as «reporters.»

Gooding responded that this sounded like John Keats, the English Romantic poet, who wrote `'» Beauty is truth, truth beauty,» and he added apologetically, that he considered these paintings beautiful, though he knew the word was somewhat out of style.

A special event as part of Words in the City, a city - wide literature festival, featuring work by local LGBT * poets, including Stevie James who will present work from new collection «A Lonely Man Circling The Earth», accompanied by a powerful...

«One does not write with ideas but with words», Mallarmé said to Degas, who fancied himself as a poet and had plenty of ideas.

She became a close friend of poet Frank O'Hara, who wrote several poems about her, including the words used as his epitaph: «Grace / to be born and live as variously as possible.»

Referencing a quote by Beat Generation poet William S. Burroughs, When You Cut into the Present the Future Leaks Out echoes approaches attributed to cut - up poetry, early hip hop, spoken word, and the sculptural practice of artist Gordon Matta - Clark, who sliced into urban spaces as social commentary.

The wording for this poem was taken from a work by the Armenian poet Siamanto (Atom Yarjanian), who was killed during the Armenian Genocide.

While on display, they charmed the famous Irish poet, Eilis Ni Dhuibhne's, who responded by writing an inspired collection of free verses in a collection she calls Mark My Words.

Stéphane Mallarmé wrote a variation on the subject in 1895: The pure work involves the disappearance of the voice of the poet, who cedes the initiative to words, mobilized by the clash of disparity; they illuminate each other in reciprocal reflections like a virtual spray of sparks on gems, replacing the respiration perceptible in ancient lyric breath or in the enthused, personal direction of the phrase.

Last Remembrance Day, my posting was entitled «Lest We Forget,» which offered some profound words from poet / soldiers of WWI and WWII, including a moving passage from F.R. Scott, a Canadian lawyer who was an important civil liberties advocate and past Dean of McGill Law School.