Art is the means we have of undoing the damage of haste. It's what everything else isn't. Theodore Roethke More Quotes by Theodore Roethke More Quotes From Theodore Roethke How terrible the need for God. Theodore Roethke terrible god needs 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. Theodore Roethke light wings bird I am overwhelmed by the beautiful disorder of poetry, the eternal virginity of words. Theodore Roethke overwhelmed disorder beautiful My truths are all foreknown,This anguish self-revealed.I'm naked to the bone,With nakedness my shield. Theodore Roethke shields naked self I wish I could find an event that meant as much as simple seeing. Theodore Roethke events simple wish 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. Theodore Roethke flower dream rain Reason? That dreary shed, that hutch for grubby schoolboys. Theodore Roethke shed dreary reason I have come to a still, but not a deep center, Theodore Roethke eye country moving 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. Theodore Roethke substance mind long 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. Theodore Roethke broken order mean So much of adolescence is an ill-defined dying, An intolerable waiting, A longing for another place and time, Another condition. Theodore Roethke longing dying waiting We think by feeling. What is there to know? Theodore Roethke feelings knowledge thinking In a dark time, the eye begins to see / I meet my shadow in the deepening shade...Dark, dark my light, and darker my desire. Theodore Roethke light eye dark In the kingdom of bang and blab. Theodore Roethke bangs kingdoms The light comes brighter from the east; the cawOf restive crows is sharper on the ear. Theodore Roethke crow east light (I measure time by how a body sways.) Theodore Roethke body 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. Theodore Roethke toads bats nature O Lord, may I never want to look good. O Jesus, may I always read it all: out loud and the very way it should be. May I never look at the other findings until I have come to my own true conclusions: May I care for the least of the young: and become aware of the one poem that each may have written; may I be aware of what each thing is, delighted with form, and wary of the false comparison; may I never use the word "brilliant." Theodore Roethke teaching use jesus Teach as an old fishing guide takes out a beginner. Theodore Roethke beginners fishing teaching A too explicit elucidation in education destroys much of the pleasure of learning. There should be room for sly hinters, masters of suggestion. Theodore Roethke suggestions teaching rooms
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