My truths are all foreknown,This anguish self-revealed.I'm naked to the bone,With nakedness my shield. Theodore Roethke More Quotes by Theodore Roethke More Quotes From Theodore Roethke The damage of teaching: the constant contact with the undeveloped. Theodore Roethke contactdamageteaching How terrible the need for God. Theodore Roethke terriblegodneeds 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 lightwingsbird I am overwhelmed by the beautiful disorder of poetry, the eternal virginity of words. Theodore Roethke overwhelmeddisorderbeautiful I wish I could find an event that meant as much as simple seeing. Theodore Roethke eventssimplewish 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 flowerdreamrain Reason? That dreary shed, that hutch for grubby schoolboys. Theodore Roethke sheddrearyreason I have come to a still, but not a deep center, Theodore Roethke eyecountrymoving 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 substancemindlong 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 brokenordermean So much of adolescence is an ill-defined dying, An intolerable waiting, A longing for another place and time, Another condition. Theodore Roethke longingdyingwaiting We think by feeling. What is there to know? Theodore Roethke feelingsknowledgethinking 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 lighteyedark In the kingdom of bang and blab. Theodore Roethke bangskingdoms The light comes brighter from the east; the cawOf restive crows is sharper on the ear. Theodore Roethke croweastlight (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 toadsbatsnature 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 teachingusejesus Teach as an old fishing guide takes out a beginner. Theodore Roethke beginnersfishingteaching 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 suggestionsteachingrooms
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