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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. — Theodore Roethke

Art is the means we have of undoing the damage of haste. It's what everything else isn't. — Theodore Roethke

I came to love, I came into my own. — Theodore Roethke

What's freedom for? To know eternity. — Theodore Roethke

And I rejoiced in being what I was. — Theodore Roethke

Nothing would give up life:
Even the dirt keeps breathing a small breath. — Theodore Roethke

All lovers live by longing, and endure:
Summon a vision and declare it pure. — Theodore Roethke

Maybe God has a house.
But not here. — Theodore Roethke

Civilization is over-rated, but there isn't much else. — Theodore Roethke

(Dreams drain the spirit if we dream too long.) — Theodore Roethke

I have gone into the waste lonely places — Theodore Roethke

Time marks us while we are marking time. — Theodore Roethke

Wake the happy words. — Theodore Roethke

In a dark time, the mind begins to see. — Theodore Roethke

It's your privilege to find me incomprehensible. I gave you my minutes; let them remain ours. I hope I haunt you. — Theodore Roethke

I may look like a beer salesman, but I'm a poet. — Theodore Roethke

I teach my sighs to lengthen into songs,
Yet, like a tree, endure the shift of things. — Theodore Roethke

What grace I have is enough. — Theodore Roethke

I long for the imperishable quiet at the heart
of form. — Theodore Roethke

Brooding on God, I may become a man. — Theodore Roethke

The damage of teaching: the constant contact with the undeveloped. — Theodore Roethke

(I measure time by how a body sways.) — Theodore Roethke

You must believe a poem is a holy thing, a good poem, that is. — Theodore Roethke

What is desire?
The impulse to make someone else complete?
That woman would set sodden straw on fire. — Theodore Roethke

But when I breath with the birds, The spirit of wrath becomes the spirit of blessings, And the dead begin from their dark to sing in my sleep. — Theodore Roethke

Pain wanders through my bones like a lost fire — Theodore Roethke

In this place of light: he dares to live
Who stops being a bird, yet beats his wings
Against the immense immeasurable emptiness of things. — Theodore Roethke

The body and the soul know how to play
In that dark world where gods have lost their way. — Theodore Roethke

Those who are willing to be vulnerable move among mysteries. — Theodore Roethke

I am overwhelmed by the beautiful disorder of poetry, the eternal virginity of words. — Theodore Roethke

I learn by going where I have to go — Theodore Roethke

May my silences become more accurate. — Theodore Roethke

In a dark time, the eye begins to see / I meet my shadow in the deepening shade ... Dark, dark my light, and darker my desire. — Theodore Roethke

The light comes brighter from the east; the cawOf restive crows is sharper on the ear. — Theodore Roethke