Any fool can cut a bad line. It takes a real pro to cut a good line.
—Theodore Roethke, quoted in Carolyn Kizer’s foreword to Theodore Roethke on Poetry and Craft (Copper Canyon Press, 2001)
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Showing posts with label Theodore Roethke. Show all posts
greater reality
A poetry of longing: not for escape, but for a greater reality.
—Theodore Roethke, Straw For The Fire: From the Notebooks of Theodore Roethke (Doubleday & Co., 1972), edited by David Wagoner
—Theodore Roethke, Straw For The Fire: From the Notebooks of Theodore Roethke (Doubleday & Co., 1972), edited by David Wagoner
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