Theodore Roethke Quotes
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Theodore Roethke Famous Quotes & Sayings
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In our age, if a boy or girl is untalented, the odds are in favor of their thinking they want to write.
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 feel my fate in what I cannot fear.
I learn by going where I have to go.
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.
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.
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?
My soul, like some heat-maddened summer fly,
Keeps buzzing at the sill. Which I is I?
A too explicit elucidation in education destroys much of the pleasure of learning. There should be room for sly hinters, masters of suggestion.
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.
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.
I took the whiskey from the shelf,
And told my neighbors when to laugh.
I keep a dog, and bark myself.
What have I done, dear God, to deserve this perpetual feeling that I'm almost ready to begin something really new?
So much of adolescence is an ill-defined dying,
An intolerable waiting,
A longing for another place and time,
Another condition.
An intolerable waiting,
A longing for another place and time,
Another condition.
To follow the drops sliding from a lifting oar, Head up, while the rower breathes, and the small boat drifts quietly shoreward ...
My truths are all foreknown,This anguish self-revealed.I'm naked to the bone,With nakedness my shield.
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.
Speak to the stars, and the stars answer. At first the visible obscures:
Go where the light is.
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'm sweating out the will to die.
My past is sliding down the drain;
I soon will be myself again.
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.
Who stops being a bird, yet beats his wings
Against the immense immeasurable emptiness of things.
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.
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.