There's a point where plainness is no longer a virtue, when… - Theodore Roethke

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

Theodore Roethke

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Theodore Huebner Roethke (IPA: ['ɹ ɛ t.ki]; RET-key) (25 May 1908 – 1 August 1963) was an American poet who published several volumes of poetry characterized by their rhythm and natural imagery. He was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for poetry in 1954 for his book, The Waking.

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She knows the speech of light, and makes it plain
A lively thing can come to life again.

A fallen man, I climb out of my fear.

How can I rest in the days of my slowness?
I've become a strange piece of flesh,
Nervous and cold, bird-furtive, whiskery,
With a cheek soft as a hound's ear.
What's left is light as a seed;
I need an old crone's knowing.

There's a point where plainness is no longer a virtue, when it becomes excessively bald, wrenched. - Theodore Roethke

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