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"19 Theodore Roethke Quotes & Sayings

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Born: 25 May 1908. Died: 1 August 1963 | Poet |

Those who are willing to be vulnerable move among mysteries.

Willing to Be vulnerable Among mysteries
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What we need are more people who specialize in the impossible.

More people Specialize Impossible
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Deep in their roots all flowers keep the light.

Deep Roots Flowers Light
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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.

Wake Sleep My fate Cannot fear
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What's madness but nobility of soul at odds with circumstance?

Madness Nobility Soul Circumstance
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A mind too active is no mind at all.

Mind Too active
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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.

Place Light Live Bird
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I do not laugh; I do not cry; I'm sweating out the will to die. My past is sliding down the drain; I soon will be myself again.

Laugh Cry Sweating out My past
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I long for the imperishable quiet at the heart of form.

Long Imperishable quiet Heart
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Nothing would give up life: Even the dirt keeps breathing a small breath.

Nothing Give up Life Dirt
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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.

Dark time Eye To see Deepening shade
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Be sure that whatever you are is you.

Be sure Whatever You are
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All lovers live by longing, and endure: Summon a vision and declare it pure.

All lovers Live Longing Endure
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The stones were sharp, The wind came at my back; Walking along the highway, Mincing like a cat.

Were sharp Wind Walking along Highway
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What is madness but nobility of the soul at odds with circumstance.

Madness Nobility Soul Circumstance
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I fear those shadows most that start from my own feet.

Fear Shadows Start Own feet
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I teach my sighs to lengthen into songs, Yet, like a tree, endure the shift of things.

Teach My sighs Songs Tree
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My bones whisper to my blood; my sleep deceives me.

My bones Whisper Blood Sleep
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From Open House My truths are all foreknown, This anguish self-revealed. I'm naked to the bone, With nakedness my shield. Myself is what I wear: I keep the spirit spare.

Open house Foreknown Anguish Self revealed
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Theodore Roethke Quotes & Sayings