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 Be sure that whatever you are is you. Theodore Roethke I came to love, I came into my own. Theodore Roethke my-own Any fool can take a bad line out of a poem; it takes a real pro to throw out a good line. Theodore Roethke crafts lines real Wake the happy words. Theodore Roethke crafts The living all assemble! What's the cue?-- Theodore Roethke partners want desire Long live the weeds that overwhelm Theodore Roethke weed men son I bleed my bones, their marrow to bestowUpon that God who knows what I would know. Theodore Roethke marrow bones knows Let others probe the mystery if they can.Time-harried prisoners of Shall and Will -The right thing happens to the happy man. Theodore Roethke prisoner mystery men The mind enters itself, and God the mind, Theodore Roethke freedom god wind A lively understandable spirit Once entertained you. It will come again. Be still. Wait. Theodore Roethke spirit waiting inspirational Who rise from flesh to spirit know the fall: Theodore Roethke light world fall What is desire?-- Theodore Roethke impulse fire desire Too much reality can be a dazzle, a surfeit;Too close immediacy an exhaustion Theodore Roethke dazzle too-much reality In a dark time, the mind begins to see. Theodore Roethke dark-times mind dark The stones were sharp, The wind came at my back; Walking along the highway, Mincing like a cat. Theodore Roethke cat journey wind But when I breath with the birds, The spirit of wrath becomes the spirit of blessings, And the dead begin from their dark to sing in my sleep. Theodore Roethke blessing dark sleep Beginnings start without shade,Thinner than minnows.The live grass whirls with the sun,Feet run over the simple stones,There's time enough.Behold, in the lout's eye, love. Theodore Roethke eye simple running You must believe a poem is a holy thing, a good poem, that is. Theodore Roethke holy believe You must believe: a poem is a holy thing - a good poem, that is. The poem, even a short time after being written, seems no miracle; unwritten, it seems something beyond the capacity of the gods. Theodore Roethke miracle poetry believe Being, not doing, is my first joy. Theodore Roethke joy firsts
