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Theodore Roethke Quotes

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God bless the roots! Body and soul are one  (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?  (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.  (Theodore Roethke Quotes) The mind enters itself, and God the mind, And one is One, free in the tearing wind  (Theodore Roethke Quotes) Beginnings start without shade,Thinner than minnows.The live grass whirls with the sun,Feet run over the simple stones,There’s time enough.Behold, in the lout’s eye, love.  (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.  (Theodore Roethke Quotes) What is desire?-- The impulse to make someone else complete? That woman would set sodden straw on fire.  (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  (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  (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  (Theodore Roethke Quotes) A lively understandable spirit Once entertained you. It will come again. Be still. Wait  (Theodore Roethke Quotes) Art is our defense against hysteria and death  (Theodore Roethke Quotes) Deep in their roots, all flowers keep the light  (Theodore Roethke Quotes) A mind too active is no mind at all  (Theodore Roethke Quotes) The poem, even a short time after being written, seems no miracle; unwritten, it seems something beyond the capacity of the gods  (Theodore Roethke Quotes) I came to love, I came into my own  (Theodore Roethke Quotes) I learn by going where I have to go  (Theodore Roethke Quotes) Love begets love. This torment is my joy  (Theodore Roethke Quotes) I’m sure I’ve been a toad, one time or another. With bats, weasels, worms... I rejoice in the kinship. Even the caterpillar I can love, and the various vermin  (Theodore Roethke Quotes) The soul has many motions, body one  (Theodore Roethke Quotes) Time marks us while we are marking time  (Theodore Roethke Quotes) What we need is more people who specialize in the impossible  (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  (Theodore Roethke Quotes) Bless me and the maze I’m in! Hello, thingy spirit  (Theodore Roethke Quotes) Being, not doing, is my first joy  (Theodore Roethke Quotes) Over this damp grave I speak the words of my love: I, with no rights in this matter, neither father nor lover  (Theodore Roethke Quotes) All lovers live by longing, and endure: Summon a vision and declare it pure  (Theodore Roethke Quotes) I am overwhelmed by the beautiful disorder of poetry, the eternal virginity of words  (Theodore Roethke Quotes) Nothing would give up life: Even the dirt keeps breathing a small breath  (Theodore Roethke Quotes) How body from spirit slowly does unwind, until we are pure spirit at the end  (Theodore Roethke Quotes)
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