Self-contemplation is a curse That makes an old confusion w… - Theodore Roethke

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Self-contemplation is a curse
That makes an old confusion worse.

Theodore Roethke

contemplation self-awareness

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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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The Surly One

1
When true love broke my heart in half,
I took the whisky from the shelf,
And told my neighbors when to laugh.
I keep a dog, and bark myself.

2
Ghost cries out to ghost –
But who’s afraid of that?
I fear those shadows most
That start from my own feet.

Too much reality can be a dazzle, a surfeit; Too close immediacy an exhaustion

Necessity starves on the stoop of invention.

Self-contemplation is a curse That makes an old confusion worse. - Theodore Roethke

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