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Theodore Roethke quotes - page 5
Wake the happy words.
Theodore Roethke
Pain wanders through my bones like a lost fire.
Theodore Roethke
I wish I could find an event that meant as much as simple seeing.
Theodore Roethke
Should we say the self, once perceived, becomes the soul?
Theodore Roethke
I long for the imperishable quiet at the heart of form.
Theodore Roethke
What have I done, dear God, to deserve this perpetual feeling that I'm almost ready to begin something really new?
Theodore Roethke
A terrible violence of creation,A flash into the burning heart of the abominable;Yet if we wait, unafraid, beyond the fearful instant,The burning lake turns into a forest pool,The fire subsides into rings of water,A sunlit silence.
Theodore Roethke
The poet: would rather eat a heart than a hambone.
Theodore Roethke
How terrible the need for God.
Theodore Roethke
Dante attained the purgatorial hill, Trembled at hidden virtue without flaw, Shook with a mighty power beyond his will, - Did Beatrice deny what Dante saw? All lovers live by longing, and endure: Summon a vision and declare it pure.
Theodore Roethke
Let seed be grass, and grass turn into hay: I'm martyr to a motion not my own; What's freedom for? To know eternity. I swear she cast a shadow white as stone. But who would count eternity in days? These old bones live to learn her wanton ways: (I measure time by how a body sways.)
Theodore Roethke
How can I rest in the days of my slowness? I've become a strange piece of flesh, Nervous and cold, bird-furtive, whiskery, With a cheek soft as a hound's ear. What's left is light as a seed; I need an old crone's knowing.
Theodore Roethke
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Theodore Roethke
Occupation:
American Poet
Born:
May 25, 1908
Died:
August 1, 1963
Quotes count:
114
Wikipedia:
Theodore Roethke
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