Poetry in sentence

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He burned all his poetry at the age of 24 and then did not write another poem for at least seven years because he couldn't rectify the life of a poet with the life of a priest.

A few years before he died, after he had resumed writing poetry, but in secret, he confessed to a friend in a letter that I found when I was doing my research: "I've written a verse.

I focused on my mudras, on the imagery of my dance, on the poetry and the metaphor and the philosophy of the dance itself.

Robert Frost once said that, "It is poetry that is lost in translation."

But Joseph Brodsky said that, "It is poetry that is gained in translation," suggesting that translation can be a creative, transformative act.

But the number of arts participants, people who write poetry, who sing songs, who perform in church choirs, is exploding beyond our wildest imaginations.

But if Rube Goldberg machines and video poetry aren't quite your cup of tea, how about this.

I do not want children who will live forever in the pages of poetry, yet can't seem to outlive me.

But for me, poetry is not about art and performance.

It's nice poetry, but that can't exactly be right.

And by the way, I was a philosophy and poetry major in school, so I didn't know the difference between profit and revenue when I went to East Africa.

But when someone strives for greatness and poetry, but delivers a muddled (and often ridiculous) story, a bunch of disparate scenes, pretentious dialogue... Then you get the worst kind of a movie that some other reviewer very accurately defined as "pretentious crap".

An odd, willfully skewed biopic of Dyan Thomas in which we hear little more than a dozen lines of his poetry.

I'll admit that the conceptually pompous ending does have a certain visual poetry to it.

Injecting mounds of poetry in place of a story does not an art film make.

Unfortunately, I found "WS" to be a wandering, unengaging, boring bunch of claptrap pieced together with, what apparently is Schaeffer's signature, a mix of story, narration, and poetry.

The opening credits are pure poetry and I have watched it several times.

Real poetry, real humor, real tenderness, real drama, real beauty.

He discovers a near-perfect, utopian society where robots play guitars and write poetry, everyone is kind to each other and people enjoy everything technology has to offer.

The director gets your heart and leads it through 100 minutes of visual poetry.

Audio tracks of speeches, radio interviews, poetry etc. play as large a role here as visuals.

The writer (I don't know who it was, check IMDB) either worked very hard or has a good appreciation for love, poetry, and drama.

The summit of the former were the religious poetry and "The Epic Of Gilgamesh".

Sure, the plot was ripped right out of the 1930s....the writing as schmaltzy as the Hallmark Greeting Card company's legendary poetry, and the one- dimensional characters were played by a cast plucked straight from Central Casting - but it was CUTE, and exactly what I needed last night.

The superstitions, the epic songs and poetry, the faith of a people who truly believe in following their own unique patterns of life are something the West had in the times of Homer but that is now, unfortunately, completely foreign to most of us in the "developed" world.

Depressive atmosphere of ultimate despair, where the insane ones are much less horrible than the sane, where the madness is a kind of poetry, will hold you hypnotized from the very first frames of this film to the last.

Glynn Turman, (Preach Jackson) is the star of the picture playing the role of a smart guy who likes poetry and had a very sexy girl friend.

There's really just a toally unique voice to the film, a poetry of narration that's meaningful without straying into pretension.

Going over lines from plays and poetry with his aging-actress employer, it's obvious that he's ready to take on much more complex roles in films and the stage.

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