In America it's a particular problem. The artist, particularly the poet, is just unacknowledged; if I can use that dumb word. Maybe it has always been that way. Maybe the only way he or she can be acknowledged is to be connected with some movement, be it religious or political.
The deepest desire of the human spirit is to be acknowledged.
Trifling favors are readily acknowledged, though cheaply esteemed; but important ones are most rarely remembered.
Batman has been acknowledged as a legend in my lifetime.
Greatness is a property for which no man can receive credit too soon; it must be possessed long before it is acknowledged.
The unfair composition of the Security Council is largely acknowledged. The principal defects are the anachronistic privileges of the five permanent members of the Council and the Council's insufficient representativeness.
It has long been acknowledged that the single best restaurant in the world is Arthur Bryant's Barbecue at Eighteenth and Booklyn in Kansas city.
Don't worry about being acknowledged by others; worry about failing to acknowledge them.
Virtually all native cultures that have survived without fouling their nests have acknowledged that nature knows best, and have had the humility to ask the bears and wolves and ravens and redwoods for guidance.
Freedom prospers when religion is vibrant and the rule of law under God is acknowledged.
Creativity is essential to particle physics, cosmology, and to mathematics, and to other fields of science, just as it is to its more widely acknowledged beneficiaries - the arts and humanities.
There are so many great artists, I think, who kind of suffer from being icons, legends, acknowledged masters.
It must be felt that there is no national security but in the nation's humble, acknowledged dependence upon God and His overruling providence.
People are silently begging to be acknowledged, informed, given advance opportunities and led to action.
The IRA has abandoned its armed struggle in pursuit of its goals by political means. This must be fully acknowledged. Continued challenge does nothing but obstruct and inhibit the peace process.
I wanted to be acknowledged as an artist, not just some kiddie-book artist.
I've had a blessed career, and that has been acknowledged in many ways over the years.
