Theodore Roethke
Theodore Roethke
Theodore Huebner Roethkewas an American poet. He published several volumes of award-winning and critically acclaimed poetry. Roethke is regarded as one of the most accomplished and influential poets of his generation...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionPoet
Date of Birth25 May 1908
CountryUnited States of America
silence may accuracy
May my silences become more accurate.
positivity odds soul
What is madness but nobility of soul at odds with circumstance?
philosophy philosophical dying
By daily dying, I have come to be.
lonely waste lonely-places
I have gone into the waste lonely places
intuition mind intelligence
A mind too active is no mind at all.
long water together
I lose and find myself in the long water. I am gathered together once more.
humility heart self
The self says, I am; The heart says, I am less; The spirit says, you are Nothing.
bones marrow knows
I bleed my bones, their marrow to bestowUpon that God who knows what I would know.
long mind substance
And soon a branch, part of a hidden scene,The leafy mind, that long was tightly furled,Will turn its private substance into green,And young shoots spread upon our inner world.
dream rain flower
Death was not. I lived in a simple drowse:Hands and hair moved through a dream of wakening blossoms.Rain sweetened the cave and the dove still called;The flowers leaned on themselves, the flowers in hollows;And love, love sang toward.
summer wall dark
What's madness but nobility of soul At odds with circumstance? The day's on fire! I know the purity of pure despair, My shadow pinned against a sweating wall, That place among the rocks--is it a cave, Or winding path? The edge is what I have........ ....... Dark,dark my light, and darker my desire. My soul, like some heat-maddened summer fly, Keeps buzzing at the sill. ~From "The Waking" by Theodore Roethke
feelings done dear-god
What have I done, dear God, to deserve this perpetual feeling that I'm almost ready to begin something really new?
girl writing boys
In our age, if a boy or girl is untalented, the odds are in favor of their thinking they want to write.
astonishment perpetual
Live in a perpetual great astonishment.