T Roethke Quotes
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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 heartof 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 liveWho 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 playIn 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
