{"id":603,"date":"2013-03-04T06:09:07","date_gmt":"2013-03-04T11:09:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/johnestes.org\/?p=603"},"modified":"2013-03-04T06:09:07","modified_gmt":"2013-03-04T11:09:07","slug":"theodore-roethke","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/johnestes.net\/?p=603","title":{"rendered":"Theodore Roethke"},"content":{"rendered":"
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  • Poems that praise God must create the belief that God believes in the writer of the poem.<\/li>\n
  • It is hard to be both plain and direct and not appear a fool to contemporaries fed on allusions, sibylline coziness, hints and shadows.<\/li>\n
  • Perhaps no person can be a poet, or enjoy poetry, without [an] unsoundness of mind.<\/li>\n
  • The poet: would rather eat a heart than a hambone.<\/li>\n
  • Live in perpetual, great astonishment.<\/li>\n
  • Beware when you think you have found what you want.<\/li>\n<\/h5>\n

    \u2014 “The Poet’s Business”
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    Poems that praise God must create the belief that God believes in the writer of the poem. It is hard to be both plain and direct and not appear a fool to contemporaries fed on allusions, sibylline coziness, hints and shadows. Perhaps no person can be a poet, or enjoy poetry, without [an] unsoundness of mind. The poet: would rather …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","wps_subtitle":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/johnestes.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/603"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/johnestes.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/johnestes.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/johnestes.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/johnestes.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=603"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/johnestes.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/603\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/johnestes.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=603"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/johnestes.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=603"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/johnestes.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=603"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}