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13 Apr 2017, 1:42 am
In the five months that followed, William Butler Yeats, poet, pol, patriot and mystic, wrote and completed "Easter, 1916": I have met them at close of day Coming with vivid faces From counter or desk among grey Eighteenth-century houses. [read post]
8 May 2007, 5:04 pm
poet William Wordsworth, who says, Alas! [read post]
30 Jun 2012, 7:59 am
" Indiana poet James Whitcomb Riley (1849–1916) may have coined the phrase when he wrote "when I see a bird that walks like a duck and swims like a duck and quacks like a duck, I call that bird a duck. [read post]
31 Aug 2007, 9:15 am
One is Billy Leon Kearse, 34, who fatally shot Fort Pierce police officer Danny Parrish during a traffic stop in 1991.The justices also upheld the death sentence of prison poet Stephen Todd Booker, who will turn 54 Saturday. [read post]
28 Jan 2011, 8:39 am
As that link explains, he was an American pilot who joined the Royal Canadian Air Force before America entered WWII, and a test flight at 30,000 feet inspired the poem that Noonan excerpted and which Reagan related to a nation in mourning, telling his fellow Americans that the shuttle astronauts had "slipped the surly bonds of earth" to "touch the face of God".Reading Safire's article about his long-forgotten Apollo 11 contingency speech, he notes that his conclusion had… [read post]
11 Sep 2011, 6:03 am
This was followed by Governor Chris Christie, quoting the poet Mary Lee Hall. [read post]
4 Dec 2007, 4:06 pm
Libraries have a certain romance to them, which is probably why The Archivist is one of my favorite books (and also because it is about my favorite poet). [read post]
17 Mar 2008, 5:50 am
While some of the self-reflection required to do the suggested activities and assessments may be harder for some children than others, we as parents can use this advice to become more tuned in to the clues and signals our kids send us that we can then use to steer them toward things that will make them excited about learning.As for eight-year-old PunditGirl, we're having a hard time narrowing things down at the moment -- but I think she's leaning toward being a poet, an Olympic… [read post]
27 Oct 2010, 9:20 am
Moussaoui, told him:“You came here to be a martyr and to die in a great big bang of glory, but to paraphrase the poet T. [read post]
7 Jun 2008, 10:05 am
One is Louisiana Poet Laureate Brenda Marie Osbey (right). [read post]
25 Mar 2009, 11:39 am
Authored by Judge Evans, the opinion begins: “One would guess that the chances are pretty slim that the work of a 17th century French poet would find its way into a Chicago courtroom in 2009. [read post]
2 Oct 2013, 9:30 am
Meantime, someone I respect greatly pointed me to an arresting quotation of the poet Maya Angelou, which I leave you with: “The plague of racism is insidious, entering into our minds as smoothly and quietly and invisibly as floating airborne microbes enter into our bodies to find lifelong purchase in our bloodstreams. [read post]
31 May 2011, 10:15 pm
Barad-dur, also known as the Dark Tower and Sauron's citadel, is, by contrast, described as "that amazing city of alchemists and poets, mechanics and astronomers, philosophers and physicians, the heart of the only civilization in Middle-earth to bet on rational knowledge and bravely pitch its barely adolescent technology against ancient magic. [read post]
28 Oct 2006, 5:45 am
Poetry was near to the hearts of our Founding Fathers and I doubt they expected that a poet would expect compensation for a poetry reading, which was a popular pastime. [read post]
26 May 2009, 4:22 am
Lucia-born poet by a former student in the 1980s. [read post]
28 Nov 2011, 1:49 pm
Stewart, nicknamed: The Carp, who instructed me in the elements of geometry through which I came to perceive the errors of the tragic poets. [read post]
24 Feb 2011, 1:38 am
I readily admit I am unable to comply, because I am not a poet, and the language used, at best, is mere doggerel. [read post]
29 Dec 2006, 8:59 am
A more resonant project might be that of the poet. [read post]
28 Jul 2011, 1:14 pm
Playwrights and poets and such horses' necks Start off from anywhere, end up at sex. [read post]
28 Jul 2012, 9:13 pm
Heyse was a young poet, in his own time the winner of a Nobel Prize for literature. [read post]
