When I go mad, Theodore Roethke More Quotes by Theodore Roethke More Quotes From Theodore Roethke Art is our defense against hysteria and death. Theodore Roethke hysteria defense art In our age, if a boy or girl is untalented, the odds are in favor of their thinking they want to write. Theodore Roethke girl writing boys The soul has many motions, body one. Theodore Roethke body soul God bless the roots! Body and soul are one. Theodore Roethke body soul roots And I rejoiced in being what I was. Theodore Roethke Time marks us while we are marking time. Theodore Roethke mark suicide death The darkness has it's own light. Theodore Roethke light darkness To follow the drops sliding from a lifting oar, Head up, while the rower breathes, and the small boat drifts quietly shoreward. Theodore Roethke boat rowing breathe Light takes the Tree; but who can tell us how? Theodore Roethke light sleep fall All lovers live by longing, and endure: Summon a vision and declare it pure. Theodore Roethke longing vision lovers Nothing would give up life: Even the dirt keeps breathing a small breath. Theodore Roethke dirt breathing giving-up The fields stretch out in long unbroken rows. We walk aware of what is far and close. Here distance is familiar as a friend. The feud we kept with space comes to an end. Theodore Roethke distance space long I long for the imperishable quiet at the heart of form. Theodore Roethke heart quiet long 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. Theodore Roethke breathing giving-up life The sun! The sun! And all we can become And the time ripe for running to the moon! Theodore Roethke
