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Theodore Roethke Quotes

Theodore Roethke quotes

American Poet May 25, 1908 – August 1, 1963

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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 whereI have to go.....Great Nature has another thing to doTo you and me, so take the lively air,And, lovely, learn by going where to go. Theodore Roethke
Theodore Roethke quote: "Nothing would give up life: Even the dirt keeps breathing a..."
Nothing would give up life: Even the dirt keeps breathing a small breath. Theodore Roethke
Theodore Roethke quote: "Love begets love. This torment is my joy."
Love begets love. This torment is my joy. Theodore Roethke
Theodore Roethke quote: "Love is not love until love's vulnerable."
Love is not love until love's vulnerable. Theodore Roethke
Theodore Roethke quote: "I came to love, I came into my own."
I came to love, I came into my own. Theodore Roethke
The fields stretch out in long unbroken rows.We walk aware of what is far and close.Here distance is familiar as a friend.The feud we kept with space comes to an end. Theodore Roethke
My Papa's Waltz: The whiskey on your breath. Could make a small boy dizzy; But I hung on like death: Such waltzing was not easy. We romped until the pans. Slid from the kitchen shelf; My mother's countenance. Could not unfrown itself. The hand that held my wrist. Was battered on one knuckle; At every step you missed. My right ear scraped a buckle. You beat time on my head. With a palm caked hard by dirt, Then waltzed me off to bed. Still clinging to your shirt. Theodore Roethke
Theodore Roethke quote: "In a dark time, the eye begins to see / I meet my shadow in..."
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
I learned not to fear infinity, The far field, the windy cliffs of forever, The dying of time in the white light of tomorrow, The wheel turning away from itself, The sprawl of the wave, The on-coming water. Theodore Roethke
Theodore Roethke quote: "Deep in their roots, all flowers keep the light."
Deep in their roots, all flowers keep the light. Theodore Roethke
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
Theodore Roethke quote: "God bless the roots! Body and soul are one."
God bless the roots! Body and soul are one. Theodore Roethke
So much of adolescence is an ill-defined dying,An intolerable waiting,A longing for another place and time,Another condition. Theodore Roethke
Theodore Roethke quote: "I wake to sleep, and take my waking slow. I feel my fate in..."
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
Theodore Roethke quote: "Those who are willing to be vulnerable move among mysteries."
Those who are willing to be vulnerable move among mysteries. Theodore Roethke

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