Sentences with phrase «work as a poet»

Milosz does not answer this question in the poem, but his work as poet has always been to give voice to precisely this: all the sad, neglected stories of so many men and women.

In his autobiography, in the midst of an explanation of how his work as a medical doctor facilitated his work as a poet, Williams said,

poetically he permits everything possible to come forth... God's wanting to work as a poet in this fashion [discloses] God's passion to love and to be loved, yes, almost as if he were himself found in this passion, O, infinite love, so that in the power of this passion he can not stop loving, almost as if it were a weakness, although it is rather his strength, his omnipotent love.

How has being a translator specifically influenced your work as a poet?

Alice Osborn's education (MA in English, NCSU and BS in Finance, VA Tech) and work experience is unusually varied and now feeds her work as a poet, singer / songwriter, book coach and editor of Wake Living magazine.

Alice Osborn's past educational (MA in English, NCSU and BS in Finance, VA Tech) and work experience is unusually varied, and it now feeds her work as a poet - singer / songwriter, book coach and editor of Wake Living magazine.

He became a founding member of the Dada movement and worked as a poet before deciding, around 1930, to also become a sculptor.

Stackhouse contributes three poems that he describes as «examples of similarity in aesthetic and methodological scope between Kara's work as a draftsmen and my work as a poet.»

Not exact matches

No, the things the young Robert Lowell needed most as a poet were a coherent system of thought, a rich set of symbols, and a powerful collection of truths with which to begin his work.

Christian bookselling giant Mardel publishes the poetry of Amy Carmichael, whose life and work may inspire but whose verse is flat and sugary, but nothing from contemporary poetry's most prominent Christian poets, such as Richard Wilbur and Mark Jarman.

Prudentius may have his limitations as a poet, but what is the point of rendering his work in this faint English doggerel?

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.

To insist that Blake was successful as an artist and poet only to the extent that he resurrected an ancient form of myth is to deny the Christian ground of his vision and to reject the great bulk of his mature work.

She works as a freelance writer by day, poet and fiction writer by whenever life gives her a few free moments.

Paul, a Messianic Jew, affirmed secular poets and philosophers as he quoted their works from memory to Athenian intellectuals.

By some it is regarded as an original poem setting forth Krishnaism based upon the Sankhya - Yoga philosophy, but modified later by the additions in which the Vedanta is taught.73 Others think that it is an old verse Upanishad worked over by a poet in the interest of Krishnaism, after the beginning of the Christian era.74

This is not to disparage a tradition of poetry which as far back as Sumerian times possessed form and power and in the hands of Israel's immediate predecessors produced models from which the Hebrew poets could work.

I'm shaped by this place, as Luci Shaw wrote about poets, the slender antennae of awareness is always combing the world, and I am shaped by the people here, by their stories, by our becoming - shared histories, what I pick up here matters for my work, my voice, my faith, my family, perhaps it's not so prideful in this context, to say that it matters for the world.

She walked the dog as I started writing, then climbed the stairs to work at her own desk on her own poems and on [poet] Akhmatova.

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.

In Wales, Rowan Williams is a poet as well as a theologian who often engages with literature, Donald Allchin is in deep dialogue with poets in many traditions, and Oliver Davies, having ranged through German, Russian and Welsh literature as well as Meister Eckhart, is now engaged on a major work of fundamental and systematic theology with a strong literary dimension.

We have watched in dismay as «The Country of Marriage» poet offered an angry and disjointed defense of homosexual nuptials, one that seemed to contradict his earlier work.

Once started there was no stopping him, and Luther found yet another identity as poet and composer, and the principal originator of a whole new tradition of German church liturgy, rooted in the existing musical culture, and destined to reach its marvellous climax at Leipzig in the work of Johann Sebastian Bach.

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.

It is not simply that poets must work with ordinary words to say their new thing, but some poets are what Paul Van Buren calls «strange ones» for whom the ordinary things of life strike them as wonderful: «the decisive point to be made is that some men are struck by the ordinary, whereas most find it only ordinary.»

As Lewis sardonically notes, «The poet did not foresee that his work would one day meet the disarming simplicity of critics who take for gospel things said by the father of falsehood in public speeches to his troops.»

The vivid imagination and the sharp observation of men and nature that marked his mind; his acquaintance with common speech and his joy in the use of proverbs; indeed, his capacity to express in creative speaking with a skill that only a poet and genius possesses the whole range of human emotions from awe in the presence of the numinous to the feelings of the body — all are reflected in his sermons (as also in the commentaries, his work of the lecture room), not consistently, of course, and not every time, yet most impressively in the Church Postil Sermons, one of the products of his exile on Wartburg Castle, written in order to furnish to the preachers of the Reformation examples of Biblical preaching.

Granted, such poets as T. S. Eliot and W. H. Auden based some of their most important works (one thinks particularly of «The Four Quartets» in Eliot's case, and of «Horae Canonicae» in Auden's) on Christian convictions.

Describing herself as «a proud Nigerian who was born and raised in London, Hackney», she is a second year English Language and Literature student who is renowned for her work as a performance poet.

In fact, being a wife is often a complicated reality for women; as poet Jill Bialosky wrote so succinctly in The Bitch in the House: 26 Women Tell the Truth about Sex, Solitude, Work, Motherhood and Marriage, «I had wanted to get married, but I realized now that I had never wanted to be a «wife.»»

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.

With sly wit and boyish wonder, Kean's vignettes about key events in the understanding of air include numerous entertaining detours, such as the work of «William McGonagall, probably the worst poet who ever lived,» and Le Pétomane, a flatulence artist.

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.

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.

She's cast her film quite well, with Susie Porter turning in spectacular work as a private investigator looking into the disappearance of a student poet.

John can currently be seen in the revisionist thriller «The Raven» as American poet Edgar Allen Poe, and has a number of other projects in the works, including the black - ops thriller «The Numbers Station,» the Spanish - language comedy «No somos animales,» the true crime thriller «The Frozen Ground,» and two new films from director Lee Daniels: «The Paperboy» and as Richard Nixon in the star - studded «The Butler.»

Yet, like that other film, he chooses to focus not on the Chilean - born poet's early life, work or ascension to popularity among the country's liberals and intellects, but on his waning days as a politician in hiding from a changed government.

This laudatory documentary recounts the life and work of writer Charles Bukowski, who survived a youth of boozing and fighting on Los Angeles» Skid Row to become famous as the «poet laureate of the gutter» and a hero to the counterculture.

This was Williams at the peak of his game, part of a run that started with his work as a rambunctious theater - of - war DJ in «Good Morning, Vietnam» for Barry Levinson in 1987 (Oscar - nominated), inspirational teacher in «Dead Poets Society» for Peter Weir in 1989 (Oscar - nominated), culminating with his Oscar win as the university professor who draws out Matt Damon's troubled genius in 1997's «Good Will Hunting» for Gus Van Sant (good directors brought out the best in Williams).

Dickinson was obviously a great poet with a beautifully precise command of the English language, as demonstrated in the voiced - over selections from her work.

April 16, 2017 • An anesthesiologist and poet says her medical work is well - suited to poetry, as patients move in and out of consciousness under the doctor's watch.

Dickinson may have been a proto - feminist, but the film is hardly a resurrection of the 19th - century poet as an icon of social justice — surely one market - friendly direction this project could have taken — but rather a hard look at the contours of her sequestered social universe, and how those sometimes limiting parameters nevertheless fueled her work.

The conversation about his sexuality extended from the fact that Franco has previously said he's gay in his work, which was to explain why he has starred in such queer films as Milk, which won Sean Penn an Academy Award for portraying gay rights activist and politician Harvey Milk; Howl as poet Allen Ginsberg; Sal, which he also wrote and directed; and Interior.

While audiences remain divided on the quality of his later film work, he touched us deeply — and made us laugh hysterically — in films as diverse as The World According to Garp, Moscow on the Hudson, Good Morning Vietnam, Dead Poets Society (his portrayal of Mr. Keating had an enormous influence on my own early teaching), The Fisher King, Mrs. Doubtfire and Good Will Hunting (for which he won an Oscar after 3 previous nominations), not to mention his multitude of stand - up comedy performances.

«Because of Moore's original piece of software, the site lets you get to the heart of the creative act and really allows you to see what goes on in the minds of poets as they work,» Gordon says.

The resulting «main event» is archived on the site and can be played back, giving students (including aspiring young poets) the rare chance to look over the poet's shoulder as the work takes shape.

It contains hundreds of recordings of poets reading their own work as well as resources for teachers and students.

National Poetry Day free downloadable ebook: http://nationalpoetryday.co.uk/education/messages-national-poetry-day-ebook/ With Macmillan Children's Books, it has nominated 14 poets as National Poetry Day Ambassadors, with special responsibility for igniting enthusiasm nationwide by visiting schools, organizing events and competitions and writing new work on the theme of Messages.

Teaching Artists show students different approaches to writing, often using pieces by acclaimed contemporary poets and lyricists as a starting point, and give students writing prompts to begin the work of crafting individual and group poems.

He is a published author and poet whose works have appeared in publications such as Science Scope, the Kentucky English Bulletin and Curio Learning.