Quotes by Theodore Roethke
God bless the roots! Body and soul are one.
I learn by going where I have to go.
What is madness but nobility of soul at odds with circumstance.
Love is not love until love's vulnerable.
The soul has many motions, body one.
I came to love, I came into my own.
I am renewed by death, thought of my death, The dry scent of a dying garden in September,...
A mind too active is no mind at all.
If only I could nudge you from this sleep, My maimed darling, my skittery pigeon....
Death of the self in a long, tearless night, All natural shapes blazing unnatural light.
The mind enters itself, and God the mind, And one is One, free in the tearing wind.
I wake to sleep, and take my waking slow. I feel my fate in what I cannot fear. I learn by going where I have to go.
May you live out your life Without hate, without grief...
In a dark time, the eye begins to see.
Nothing would give up life; Even the dirt kept breathing a small breath.
By daily dying I have come to be.
Deep in their roots, all flowers keep the light.
What we need is more people who specialize in the impossible.
A lively understandable spirit Once entertained you. It will come again. Be still. Wait.
Over every mountain there is a path, although it may not be seen from the valley.
Love begets love. This torment is my joy.
