[New-Poetry] Roethke's take on the value of art

[Anny Ballardini]

prayer

rounded nest

art is rest

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  "Art is the means we have of undoing the damage of haste. It's what

  everything else isn't."

   

      --from *On Poetry and Craft: Selected Prose of Theodore Roethke*


    When you look back on a lifetime and think of what has been given to the world by your presence, your fugitive presence, inevitably you have to think of your art, whatever it may be, as the gift you have made to the world in acknowledgement of the gift you have been given, which is the life itself. And I think the world tends to forget that this is the ultimate significance of the body of work each artist produces. It is not an expression of the desire for praise or recognition, or prizes, but the deepest manifestation of your gratitude for the gift of life. 

    Stanley Kunitz
    1905-2006
    from The Wild Braid, W.W. Norton, 2005
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