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“Stanely Kunitz on his friend Theodore Roethke”

“In our age, if a boy or girl is untalented, the odds are in favor of their thinking they want to write.”

“There's a point where plainness is no longer a virtue, when it becomes excessively bald, wrenched.”

“Being, not doing, is my first joy.”

“You can't make poetry simply by avoiding clichés.”

“Roethke at the Modern American Poetry Site”

Resonant Thoughts

"If Marx were functioning today, he would have been hard put to avoid saying that imaginary sex is the opiate of the people."

— John Ralston Saul

Politics1947

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"And ruined is the Cossack! He is lost for all the chivalry of the Cossacks! He will see Zaporozhye no more; nor his father's farms, nor the church of God. Ukraine will see no more the bravest of the s…"

— Nikolai Gogol

Literature1809–1852

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"According to tradition, the Blessed One preordained the Bodhisattva Maitreya as his successor. “And the Blessed One said to Ananda, ‘I am not the first Buddha who has come upon Earth, nor shall I be t…"

— Helena Roerich

Philosophy1879–1955

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"My head-dress was a bugle-band like the border to my gown, and a flower of Mrs Tilson's. I depended upon hearing something of the evening from Mr. W. K., and am very well satisfied with his notice of …"

— Jane Austen

Literature1775–1817

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