List of Theodore Roethke Quotes

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Theodore Roethke
Total Quotes 95
Nothing would give up life: even the dirt keeps breathing a small breath.
Giving Up Breathing Dirt
You must believe a poem is a holy thing, a good poem, that is.
Believe Holy
Too much reality can be a dazzle, a surfeit;too close immediacy an exhaustion
Reality Dazzle Too Much
And what a congress of stinks!- roots ripe as old bait, pulpy stems, rank, silo-rich, leaf mold, manure, lime, piled against slippery planks, nothing would give up life: even the dirt kept breathing a small breath.
Life Giving Up Breathing
In our age, if a boy or girl is untalented, the odds are in favor of their thinking they want to write.
Girl Writing Boys
I'm sure i've been a toad, one time or another. with bats, weasels, worms...i rejoice in the kinship. even the caterpillar i can love, and the various vermin.
Nature Bats Toads
The light comes brighter from the east; the cawof restive crows is sharper on the ear.
Light Crow East
I always felt mean, jogging back over the logging road,as if i had broken the natural order of things in that swampland;disturbed some rhythm, old and of vast importance,by pulling off flesh from the living planet;as if i had committed, against the whole scheme of life, a desecration.
Mean Order Broken
Being, not doing, is my first joy.
Joy Firsts
So much of adolescence is an ill-defined dying, an intolerable waiting, a longing for another place and time, another condition.
Waiting Dying Longing
The living all assemble! what's the cue?-- do what the clumsy partner wants to do!
Desire Want Partners
Let others probe the mystery if they can.time-harried prisoners of shall and will -the right thing happens to the happy man.
Men Mystery Prisoner
  • Born: May 25, 1908
  • Died: August 1, 1963
  • Occupation: Poet
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