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Theodore Roethke
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“God bless the roots! — Body and soul are one! The small become the great, the great the small; The right thing happens to the happy man.”
Theodore Roethke (1908–1963) said by 1963 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“And I dance with William Blake For love, for Love's sake;And everything comes to One, As we dance on, dance on, dance on.”
Theodore Roethke (1908–1963) said by 1963 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Poetry is not a mere shuffling of dead words or even a corralling of live ones. (p. 89)”
Theodore Roethke (1908–1963) said by 1963 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“In our age, if a boy or girl is untalented, the odds are in favor of their thinking they want to write. (p. 89)”
Theodore Roethke (1908–1963) said by 1963 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“There's an element of desperation in the insistence of the graduate student's respect for knowledge — as opposed to wisdom. (p. 95)”
Theodore Roethke (1908–1963) said by 1963 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The poem, even a short time after being written, seems no miracle; unwritten, it seems something beyond the capacity of the gods.”
Theodore Roethke (1908–1963) said by 1963 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Art is the means we have of undoing the damage of haste. It's what everything else isn't.”
Theodore Roethke (1908–1963) said by 1963 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“You can't make poetry simply by avoiding clichés.”
Theodore Roethke (1908–1963) said by 1963 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“There's a point where plainness is no longer a virtue, when it becomes excessively bald, wrenched.”
Theodore Roethke (1908–1963) said by 1963 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“You must believe: a poem is a holy thing — a good poem, that is.”
Theodore Roethke (1908–1963) said by 1963 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Yet for this we travelled With hope, and not alone, In the country of ourselves, In a country of bright stone.”
Theodore Roethke (1908–1963) said by 1963 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source