Best Quotes by Theodore Roethke (Top 10)
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Those who are willing to be vulnerable move among mysteries.
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What we need is more people who specialize in the impossible.
Theodore Roethke
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Deep in their roots, all flowers keep the light.
Theodore Roethke
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Love is not love until love's vulnerable.
Theodore Roethke
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By daily dying, I have come to be.
Theodore Roethke
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May my silences become more accurate.
Theodore Roethke
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How body from spirit slowly does unwind, until we are pure spirit at the end.
Theodore Roethke
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Over every mountain there is a path, although it may not be seen from the valley.
Theodore Roethke
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Art is the means we have of undoing the damage of haste. It's what everything else isn't.
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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.
Theodore Roethke
More Theodore Roethke Quotes
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What is madness but nobility of soul at odds with circumstance?
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The visible exhausts me. I am dissolved in shadow.
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I have gone into the waste lonely places
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I lose and find myself in the long water. I am gathered together once more.
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So much of adolescence is an ill-defined dying, An intolerable waiting, A longing for another place and time, Another condition.
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A mind too active is no mind at all.
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All finite things reveal infinitude: The mountain with its singular bright shade Like the blue shine on freshly frozen snow, The after-light upon ice-burdened pines; Odor of basswood upon a mountain slope, A scene beloved of bees; Silence of water above a sunken tree: The pure serene of memory of one man,- A ripple widening from a single stone Winding around the waters of the world.
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I learn by going where I have to go.
Theodore Roethke