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Those who are willing to be vulnerable move among mysteries.

~ Theodore Roethke

Theodore Roethke Life Poetry

In a dark time, the eye begins to see.

~ Theodore Roethke

Theodore Roethke Grief Inspirational Understanding Oneself And Others Wisdom

By daily dying, I have come to be.

~ Theodore Roethke

Theodore Roethke Death Growth Poetry

I wake to sleep, and take my waking slow. I feel my fate in what I cannot fear. I learn by going where I have to go.

~ Theodore Roethke

Theodore Roethke Poetry Sleep

What is madness but nobility of the soul at odds with circumstance.

~ Theodore Roethke

Theodore Roethke Poetry

It’s your privilege to find me incomprehensible. I gave you my minutes, let them remain ours. I hope I haunt you.

~ Theodore Roethke

Theodore Roethke Poetics Poetry

What's freedom for? To know eternity.

~ Theodore Roethke

Theodore Roethke Eternity Freedom Inspirational Inspirational Love Life Love Motivational Inspirational

I learned not to fear infinity,The far field, the windy cliffs of forever,The dying of time in the white light of tomorrow,The wheel turning away from itself,The sprawl of the wave,The on-coming water.

~ Theodore Roethke

Theodore Roethke Aging Courage

The MistakeHe left his pants upon a chair:She was a widow, so she said:But he was apprehended, bare,By one who rose up from the dead.

~ Theodore Roethke

Theodore Roethke Adulterers Adultery Limmeric Sex

I trust all joy

~ Theodore Roethke

Theodore Roethke Joy

The GeraniumWhen I put her out, once, by the garbage pail,She looked so limp and bedraggled,So foolish and trusting, like a sick poodle,Or a wizened aster in late September,I brought her back in againFor a new routine -Vitamins, water, and whateverSustenance seemed sensibleAt the time: she'd livedSo long on gin, bobbie pins, half-smoked cigars, dead beer,Her shriveled petals fallingOn the faded carpet, the staleSteak grease stuck to her fuzzy leaves.(Dried-out, she creaked like a tulip.)The things she endured!-The dumb dames shrieking half the nightOr the two of us, alone, both seedy,Me breathing booze at her,She leaning out of her pot toward the window.Near the end, she seemed almost to hear me-And that was scary-So when that snuffling cretin of a maidThrew her, pot and all, into the trash-can,I said nothing.But I sacked the presumptuous hag the next week,I was that lonely.

~ Theodore Roethke

Theodore Roethke Alcoholism Anthropomorphization Botany Flowers Loneliness Sentimental

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

Theodore Roethke Darkness Poetry

What grace I have is enough.

~ Theodore Roethke

Theodore Roethke Grace Poetry

I do not laugh, I do not cry,I'm sweating out the will to die.My past is sliding down the drain,I soon will be myself again.

~ Theodore Roethke

Theodore Roethke Patience Self Awareness Self Care Suicidal Thoughts

Be sure that whatever you are is you.

~ Theodore Roethke

Theodore Roethke Persona Personalities Self Awareness Self Identity

Self-contemplation is a curseThat makes an old confusion worse.

~ Theodore Roethke

Theodore Roethke Contemplation Self Awareness

I've recovered my tenderness by long looking;I'm a Socrates of small fury.The waves bends with the fish. I'm taughtAs water teaches stone. Believe me, extremest oriole,I can hear light on a dry day.The world is where we fling it; I'm leaving where I am.

~ Theodore Roethke

Theodore Roethke Imagery Reformation Self Awareness

When true love broke my heart in half,I took the whiskey from the shelf,And told my neighbors when to laugh.I keep a dog, and bark myself.

~ Theodore Roethke

Theodore Roethke Barking Drinking Alcohol Heartbreak Poetry Poetry About Love

The stones were sharp,The wind came at my back;Walking along the highway, Mincing like a cat.

~ Theodore Roethke

Theodore Roethke Attitude Cat Highway Mincing Walking Wind

I wake to sleep, and take my waking slow.

~ Theodore Roethke

Theodore Roethke Dream Dreams Sleep Tired Wake Waking

Love alters all. Unblood my instinct, love.

~ Theodore Roethke

Theodore Roethke Instincts Love Conquers All Lust Poetry Sexuality

What we need is more people who specialize in the impossible.

~ Theodore Roethke

Theodore Roethke Impossible People Need

Over every mountain there is a path, although it may not be seen from the valley.

~ Theodore Roethke

Theodore Roethke Mountain Path May

Deep in their roots, all flowers keep the light.

~ Theodore Roethke

Theodore Roethke Light Deep Flowers
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