Tag: beautiful sentences
Beautiful Sentences Contest Winners: Toujours Bon Appetit!
The poet Keats, at the age of twenty-four, penned these immortal words,
‘Beauty is truth, truth beauty,—that is all
Ye know on earth, and all ye need to know.’
I thought of them often as readers and I struggled with how to evaluate the many different kinds of sentences entered into the contest to find the most [...]
Posted: June 4th, 2009 under Personal Reflections.
Tags: beautiful sentences
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Beautiful Sentences: A Different Kind of American Idol Contest
About 200 people visit this website each week–not a great crowd, but one that is slowly growing. Each time I log in to the dashboard to begin writing another post, I get another set of statistics that informs me which post is most popular and what search terms people are using that brings my blog [...]
Posted: May 20th, 2009 under Personal Reflections, Writing Tips.
Tags: American idol, beautiful sentences, contests, Marilyn Chandler McEntyre
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Memoir and the Beautiful Sentence: Lenten Season Thoughts
My Lenten season reading this year includes Marilyn Chandler McEntyre’s extended meditation on the prayer of St. Patrick. I have written about Marilyn in previous blogs and have read several books of her poetry. My appreciation continues to grow for her spiritual and literary wisdom as I read more of her work.
Christ, My Companion [...]
Posted: March 14th, 2009 under My Reviews, Spiritual Memoir.
Tags: beautiful sentences, Marilyn Chandler McEntyre, St. Patrick's breastplate prayer
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