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“The most difficult thing to remember: that a poem is made of words.”
― Theodore Roethke, Straw for the Fire: From the Notebooks of Theodore Roethke

“The actor’s art is the art of deceiving; the art is the deception. To be able to deceive is the great thing, and to allow oneself to be deceived is just as great. Therefore one must not be able and must not want to see the actor through the costume; therefore it is the pinnacle of art when the actor becomes one with what he represents, because this is the pinnacle of deception.”
― Soren Kierkegaard, Works of Love

“No poet, if he understands himself, would think of singing its praises. What the poet sings about must have the sadness, which is the riddle of his own life, that it must blossom—and, alas, must perish.”
― Soren Kierkegaard, Works of Love

“The young artist: there is no other kind of mind but my own.”
― Theodore Roethke, Straw for the Fire: From the Notebooks of Theodore Roethke