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Theodore Roethke - From the Art category:
Art is the means we have of undoing the damage of haste. It's what everything else isn't. (Theodore Roethke)
Theodore Roethke - From the Culture category:
- Straw for the Fire, a selection from his journals...
Civilization is over-rated, but there isn't much else. (Theodore Roethke)
Theodore Roethke - From the Drunkenness category:
The whiskey on your breath / Could make a small boy dizzy; / But I hung on like death: / Such waltzing was not easy. (Theodore Roethke)
Theodore Roethke - From the Eccentricity category:
What is madness but nobility of soul at odds with circumstance? (Theodore Roethke)
Theodore Roethke - From the Education category:
I learn by going where I have to go. (Theodore Roethke)
Theodore Roethke - From the Exhaustion category:
The visible exhausts me. I am dissolved in shadow. (Theodore Roethke)
Theodore Roethke - From the Impossibilities category:
What we need is more people who specialize in the impossible. (Theodore Roethke)
Theodore Roethke - From the Journey category:
Over every mountain there is a path, although it may not be seen from the valley. (Theodore Roethke)
Theodore Roethke - From the Life category:
By daily dying, I have come to be. (Theodore Roethke)
Theodore Roethke - From the Light category:
Deep in their roots, all flowers keep the light. (Theodore Roethke)
Theodore Roethke - From the Love category:
Love is not love until love's vulnerable. (Theodore Roethke)
Theodore Roethke - From the Movement category:
The soul has many motions, body one. (Theodore Roethke)
Theodore Roethke - From the Poetry category:
Poetry is not a mere shuffling of dead words or even a corralling of live ones. (Theodore Roethke)
Theodore Roethke - From the Poetry category:
The poem, even a short time after being written, seems no miracle; unwritten, it seems something beyond the capacity of the gods. (Theodore Roethke)
Theodore Roethke - From the Revelation category:
All finite things reveal infinitude. (Theodore Roethke)
Theodore Roethke - From the Seeing category:
In a dark time, the mind begins to see. (Theodore Roethke)
Theodore Roethke - From the Silence category:
May my silences become more accurate. (Theodore Roethke)
Theodore Roethke - From the Spirituality category:
A lively understandable spirit Once entertained you. It will come again. Be still. Wait. (Theodore Roethke)
Theodore Roethke - From the Time category:
Time marks us while we are marking time. (Theodore Roethke)
Theodore Roethke - From the Vulnerability category:
Those who are willing to be vulnerable move among mysteries. (Theodore Roethke)
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