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Theodore Roethke
American
Poet
About the author
A lively understandable spirit Once entertained you. It will come again. Be still. Wait.
Theodore Roethke,
American
Poet
#Will
#Spirit
Deep in their roots, all flowers keep the light.
Theodore Roethke,
American
Poet
#Flowers
#Light
#Deep
Over every mountain there is a path, although it may not be seen from the valley.
Theodore Roethke,
American
Poet
#May
Love is not love until love's vulnerable.
Theodore Roethke,
American
Poet
#Love
Love begets love. This torment is my joy.
Theodore Roethke,
American
Poet
#Love
#Joy
The soul has many motions, body one.
Theodore Roethke,
American
Poet
#Soul
#Body
What is madness but nobility of soul at odds with circumstance.
Theodore Roethke,
American
Poet
#Soul
#Circumstance
#Madness
#Nobility
Time marks us while we are marking time.
Theodore Roethke,
American
Poet
#Time
What we need is more people who specialize in the impossible.
Theodore Roethke,
American
Poet
#People
I came to love, I came into my own.
Theodore Roethke,
American
Poet
#Love
I learn by going where I have to go.
Theodore Roethke,
American
Poet
A mind too active is no mind at all.
Theodore Roethke,
American
Poet
#Mind
God bless the roots! Body and soul are one.
Theodore Roethke,
American
Poet
#God
#Soul
#Body