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odore Roethke

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. American poet; 1954 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry

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Top 5 Poems

1	Cuttings
2	Elegy For Jane
3	The Geranium
4	The Far Field
5	Epidermal Macabre

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Epidermal Macabre

Journey Into The Interior

The Saginaw Song

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Iambic meter! (Did you know that it expresses our heart-beat?)

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Quote Left Death of the self in a long, tearless night, All natural shapes blazing unnatural light.
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Quote Left May you live out your life Without hate, without grief...
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Quote Left I wake to sleep, and take my waking slow. I feel my fate in what I cannot fear. I learn by going where I have to go.
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Quote Left I am renewed by death, thought of my death, The dry scent of a dying garden in September,...
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Quote Left Nothing would give up life; Even the dirt kept breathing a small breath.
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