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Theodore Roethke quotes: What falls away is always. And is near. What falls away is always. And is near.
Theodore Roethke quotes: In our age, if a boy or girl is untalented, the odds are in favor of their thinking they want to write. In our age, if a boy or girl is untalented, the odds are in favor of their thinking they want to write.
Theodore Roethke quotes: A mind too active is no mind at all. A mind too active is no mind at all.
Theodore Roethke quotes: Love alters all. Unblood my instinct, love. Love alters all. Unblood my instinct, love.
Theodore Roethke quotes: The living all assemble! What's the cue?Do what the clumsy partner wants to do! The living all assemble! What's the cue?
Do what the clumsy partner wants to do!
Theodore Roethke quotes: 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. 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 quotes: The MistakeHe left his pants upon a chair:She was a widow, so she said:But he was apprehended, bare,By one who rose up from the dead. The Mistake
He left his pants upon a chair:
She was a widow, so she said:
But he was apprehended, bare,
By one who rose up from the dead.
Theodore Roethke quotes: Dark, dark my light, and darker my desire.My soul, like some heat-maddened summer fly,Keeps buzzing at the sill. Which I is I? Dark, dark my light, and darker my desire.
My soul, like some heat-maddened summer fly,
Keeps buzzing at the sill. Which I is I?
Theodore Roethke quotes: Art is the means we have of undoing the damage of haste. It's what everything else isn't. Art is the means we have of undoing the damage of haste. It's what everything else isn't.
Theodore Roethke quotes: A too explicit elucidation in education destroys much of the pleasure of learning. There should be room for sly hinters, masters of suggestion. A too explicit elucidation in education destroys much of the pleasure of learning. There should be room for sly hinters, masters of suggestion.
Theodore Roethke quotes: I came to love, I came into my own. I came to love, I came into my own.
Theodore Roethke quotes: What's freedom for? To know eternity. What's freedom for? To know eternity.
Theodore Roethke quotes: I came where the river Ran over stones; My ears knew An early joy. And all the waters Of all the streams Sang in my veins That summer day. I came where the river Ran over stones; My ears knew An early joy. And all the waters Of all the streams Sang in my veins That summer day.
Theodore Roethke quotes: And I rejoiced in being what I was. And I rejoiced in being what I was.
Theodore Roethke quotes: When true love broke my heart in half,I took the whiskey from the shelf,And told my neighbors when to laugh.I keep a dog, and bark myself. When true love broke my heart in half,
I took the whiskey from the shelf,
And told my neighbors when to laugh.
I keep a dog, and bark myself.
Theodore Roethke quotes: How terrible the need for God. How terrible the need for God.
Theodore Roethke quotes: Over every mountain, there is a path, although it may not be seen from the valley. Over every mountain, there is a path, although it may not be seen from the valley.
Theodore Roethke quotes: What have I done, dear God, to deserve this perpetual feeling that I'm almost ready to begin something really new? What have I done, dear God, to deserve this perpetual feeling that I'm almost ready to begin something really new?
Theodore Roethke quotes: Nothing would give up life:Even the dirt keeps breathing a small breath. Nothing would give up life:
Even the dirt keeps breathing a small breath.
Theodore Roethke quotes: My father is a fish. My father is a fish.
Theodore Roethke quotes: O my poor words, bear with me. O my poor words, bear with me.
Theodore Roethke quotes: The stones were sharp,The wind came at my back;Walking along the highway, Mincing like a cat. The stones were sharp,
The wind came at my back;
Walking along the highway,
Mincing like a cat.
Theodore Roethke quotes: All lovers live by longing, and endure:Summon a vision and declare it pure. All lovers live by longing, and endure:
Summon a vision and declare it pure.
Theodore Roethke quotes: Maybe God has a house.But not here. Maybe God has a house.
But not here.
Theodore Roethke quotes: Civilization is over-rated, but there isn't much else. Civilization is over-rated, but there isn't much else.
Theodore Roethke quotes: (Dreams drain the spirit if we dream too long.) (Dreams drain the spirit if we dream too long.)
Theodore Roethke quotes: How body from spirit slowly does unwind, until we are pure spirit at the end. How body from spirit slowly does unwind, until we are pure spirit at the end.
Theodore Roethke quotes: And I walked, I walked through the light air; I moved with the morning. And I walked, I walked through the light air; I moved with the morning.
Theodore Roethke quotes: Should we say the self, once perceived, becomes the soul? Should we say the self, once perceived, becomes the soul?
Theodore Roethke quotes: The soul has many motions, body one. The soul has many motions, body one.
Theodore Roethke quotes: I have gone into the waste lonely places I have gone into the waste lonely places
Theodore Roethke quotes: Reason? That dreary shed, that hutch for grubby schoolboys. Reason? That dreary shed, that hutch for grubby schoolboys.
Theodore Roethke quotes: Time marks us while we are marking time. Time marks us while we are marking time.
Theodore Roethke quotes: What's important? That which is dug out of books, or out of the guts? What's important? That which is dug out of books, or out of the guts?
Theodore Roethke quotes: The poet: would rather eat a heart than a hambone. The poet: would rather eat a heart than a hambone.
Theodore Roethke quotes: The visible exhausts me. I am dissolved in shadow. The visible exhausts me. I am dissolved in shadow.
Theodore Roethke quotes: Wake the happy words. Wake the happy words.
Theodore Roethke quotes: I fear those shadows most that start from my own feet. I fear those shadows most that start from my own feet.
Theodore Roethke quotes: In a dark time, the eye begins to see. In a dark time, the eye begins to see.
Theodore Roethke quotes: Being, not doing, is my first joy. Being, not doing, is my first joy.
Theodore Roethke quotes: When I go mad, I call my friends by phone: I am afraid they might think they're alone. When I go mad,
I call my friends by phone:
I am afraid they might think
they're alone.
Theodore Roethke quotes: From The AuctionI left my home with unencumbered willAnd all the rubbish of confusion sold. From The Auction
I left my home with unencumbered will
And all the rubbish of confusion sold.
Theodore Roethke quotes: Love begets love. This torment is my joy. Love begets love. This torment is my joy.
Theodore Roethke quotes: Necessity starves on the stoop of invention. Necessity starves on the stoop of invention.
Theodore Roethke quotes: The darkness has it's own light. The darkness has it's own light.
Theodore Roethke quotes: What's madness but nobility of soul at odds with circumstance? What's madness but nobility of soul at odds with circumstance?
Theodore Roethke quotes: Live in a perpetual great astonishment. Live in a perpetual great astonishment.
Theodore Roethke quotes: Any fool can take a bad line out of a poem; it takes a real pro to throw out a good line. Any fool can take a bad line out of a poem; it takes a real pro to throw out a good line.
Theodore Roethke quotes: Too much reality can be a dazzle, a surfeit;Too close immediacy an exhaustion Too much reality can be a dazzle, a surfeit;Too close immediacy an exhaustion
Theodore Roethke quotes: In the kingdom of bang and blab. In the kingdom of bang and blab.
Theodore Roethke quotes: So much of adolescence is an ill-defined dying,An intolerable waiting,A longing for another place and time,Another condition. So much of adolescence is an ill-defined dying,
An intolerable waiting,
A longing for another place and time,
Another condition.
Theodore Roethke quotes: To follow the drops sliding from a lifting oar, Head up, while the rower breathes, and the small boat drifts quietly shoreward ... To follow the drops sliding from a lifting oar, Head up, while the rower breathes, and the small boat drifts quietly shoreward ...
Theodore Roethke quotes: My bones whisper to my blood; my sleep deceives me. My bones whisper to my blood; my sleep deceives me.
Theodore Roethke quotes: She moves as water moves, and comes to me,Stayed by what was, and pulled by what would be. She moves as water moves, and comes to me,
Stayed by what was, and pulled by what would be.
Theodore Roethke quotes: The two duties are to lament or praise. The two duties are to lament or praise.
Theodore Roethke quotes: Self-contemplation is a curseThat makes an old confusion worse. Self-contemplation is a curse
That makes an old confusion worse.
Theodore Roethke quotes: Fear was my father, Father Fear. His look drained the stones. Fear was my father, Father Fear. His look drained the stones.
Theodore Roethke quotes: Deep in their roots all flowers keep the light. Deep in their roots all flowers keep the light.
Theodore Roethke quotes: My truths are all foreknown,This anguish self-revealed.I'm naked to the bone,With nakedness my shield. My truths are all foreknown,This anguish self-revealed.I'm naked to the bone,With nakedness my shield.
Theodore Roethke quotes: A house for wisdom, a field for revelation.Speak to the stars, and the stars answer. At first the visible obscures:Go where the light is. A house for wisdom, a field for revelation.
Speak to the stars, and the stars answer. At first the visible obscures:
Go where the light is.
Theodore Roethke quotes: The self says, I am; The heart says, I am less; The spirit says, you are Nothing. The self says, I am; The heart says, I am less; The spirit says, you are Nothing.
Theodore Roethke quotes: By daily dying, I have come to be. By daily dying, I have come to be.
Theodore Roethke quotes: I do not laugh; I do not cry;I'm sweating out the will to die.My past is sliding down the drain;I soon will be myself again. I do not laugh; I do not cry;
I'm sweating out the will to die.
My past is sliding down the drain;
I soon will be myself again.
Theodore Roethke quotes: In this place of light: he dares to liveWho stops being a bird, yet beats his wingsAgainst the immense immeasurable emptiness of things. 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 quotes: I long for the imperishable quiet at the heartof form. I long for the imperishable quiet at the heart
of form.
Theodore Roethke quotes: The damage of teaching: the constant contact with the undeveloped. The damage of teaching: the constant contact with the undeveloped.
Theodore Roethke quotes: (I measure time by how a body sways.) (I measure time by how a body sways.)
Theodore Roethke quotes: Brooding on God, I may become a man. Brooding on God, I may become a man.
Theodore Roethke quotes: You must believe a poem is a holy thing, a good poem, that is. You must believe a poem is a holy thing, a good poem, that is.
Theodore Roethke quotes: What is desire?The impulse to make someone else complete?That woman would set sodden straw on fire. What is desire?
The impulse to make someone else complete?
That woman would set sodden straw on fire.
Theodore Roethke quotes: 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. 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 quotes: Pain wanders through my bones like a lost fire Pain wanders through my bones like a lost fire
Theodore Roethke quotes: I teach my sighs to lengthen into songs,Yet, like a tree, endure the shift of things. I teach my sighs to lengthen into songs,
Yet, like a tree, endure the shift of things.
Theodore Roethke quotes: The body and the soul know how to playIn that dark world where gods have lost their way. The body and the soul know how to play
In that dark world where gods have lost their way.
Theodore Roethke quotes: Those who are willing to be vulnerable move among mysteries. Those who are willing to be vulnerable move among mysteries.
Theodore Roethke quotes: I am overwhelmed by the beautiful disorder of poetry, the eternal virginity of words. I am overwhelmed by the beautiful disorder of poetry, the eternal virginity of words.
Theodore Roethke quotes: I learn by going where I have to go I learn by going where I have to go
Theodore Roethke quotes: May my silences become more accurate. May my silences become more accurate.
Theodore Roethke quotes: 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. 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 quotes: The light comes brighter from the east; the cawOf restive crows is sharper on the ear. The light comes brighter from the east; the cawOf restive crows is sharper on the ear.
Theodore Roethke quotes: I wish I could find an event that meant as much as simple seeing. I wish I could find an event that meant as much as simple seeing.
Theodore Roethke quotes: What is madness but nobility of the soul at odds with circumstance. What is madness but nobility of the soul at odds with circumstance.
Theodore Roethke quotes: A lively understandable spirit Once entertained you. It will come again. Be still. Wait. A lively understandable spirit Once entertained you. It will come again. Be still. Wait.
Theodore Roethke quotes: God bless the roots! Body and soul are one. God bless the roots! Body and soul are one.
Theodore Roethke quotes: Who rise from flesh to spirit know the fall:The word outleaps the world, and light is all. Who rise from flesh to spirit know the fall:
The word outleaps the world, and light is all.
Theodore Roethke quotes: Teach as an old fishing guide takes out a beginner. Teach as an old fishing guide takes out a beginner.
Theodore Roethke quotes: We think by feeling. What is there to know? We think by feeling. What is there to know?
Theodore Roethke quotes: I lose and find myself in the long water. I am gathered together once more. I lose and find myself in the long water. I am gathered together once more.
Theodore Roethke quotes: Be sure that whatever you are is you. Be sure that whatever you are is you.
Theodore Roethke quotes: Love makes me naked;Propinquity's a harsh master;O the songs we hide singing to ourselves! Love makes me naked;
Propinquity's a harsh master;
O the songs we hide singing to ourselves!
Theodore Roethke quotes: Art is our defense against hysteria and death. Art is our defense against hysteria and death.
Theodore Roethke quotes: I bleed my bones, their marrow to bestowUpon that God who knows what I would know. I bleed my bones, their marrow to bestowUpon that God who knows what I would know.
Theodore Roethke quotes: What we need are more people who specialize in the impossible. What we need are more people who specialize in the impossible.
Theodore Roethke quotes: What grace I have is enough. What grace I have is enough.
Theodore Roethke quotes: It's your privilege to find me incomprehensible. I gave you my minutes; let them remain ours. I hope I haunt you. It's your privilege to find me incomprehensible. I gave you my minutes; let them remain ours. I hope I haunt you.
Theodore Roethke quotes: In a dark time, the mind begins to see. In a dark time, the mind begins to see.
Theodore Roethke quotes: I may look like a beer salesman, but I'm a poet. I may look like a beer salesman, but I'm a poet.

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