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
happens happy mystery others prisoners shall time
Let others probe the mystery if they can/ Time harried prisoners of shall and will./ The right thing happens to the happy man.
crafts
Wake the happy words.
my-own
I came to love, I came into my own.
wings light bird
In this place of light: he dares to live Who stops being a bird, yet beats his wings Against the immense immeasurable emptiness of things.
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.
astonishment perpetual
Live in a perpetual great astonishment.
roots soul body
God bless the roots! Body and soul are one.
rowing boat breathe
To follow the drops sliding from a lifting oar, Head up, while the rower breathes, and the small boat drifts quietly shoreward...
bangs kingdoms
In the kingdom of bang and blab.