“Nothing would give up life:
Even the dirt kept breathing a small breath.”
Theodore Roethke (1908–1963) American poet
"Root Cellar," ll. 10-11
The Lost Son and Other Poems (1948)
“Nothing that is complete breathes.”
Voces (1943)
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Context: p>The clouds preceded us.There was a muddy centre before we breathed.
There was a myth before the myth began,
Venerable and articulate and complete.From this the poem springs: that we live in a place
That is not our own and, much more, not ourselves
And hard it is in spite of blazoned days.</p
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Section 3.9
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Source: The Life of Poetry (1949), p. 221
Context: Experience taken into the body, breathed-in, so that reality is the completion of experience, and poetry is what is produced. And life is what is produced.
To stand against the idea of the fallen world, a powerful and destructive idea overshadowing Western poetry. In that sense, there is no lost Eden, and God is the future. The child walled-up in our life can be given his growth. In this growth is our security.
“Maybe nothing is completely true, and not even that.”
Multatuli (1820–1887) Dutch author
Multatuli, Ideeën
