Theodore Roethke: The Chair

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The Chair

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by Theodore Roethke
(1908 - 1963) Timeline

Original Language
English

Secular or Eclectic

20th Century

A funny thing about a Chair:
You hardly ever think it's there.
To know a Chair is really it,
You sometimes have to go and sit.

-- from The Collected Poems of Theodore Roethke, by Theodore Roethke

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