Theodore Roethke
Theodore Roethke
Theodore Huebner Roethkewas an American poet. He published several volumes of award-winning and critically acclaimed poetry. Roethke is regarded as one of the most accomplished and influential poets of his generation...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionPoet
Date of Birth25 May 1908
CountryUnited States of America
dream rain flower
Death was not. I lived in a simple drowse:Hands and hair moved through a dream of wakening blossoms.Rain sweetened the cave and the dove still called;The flowers leaned on themselves, the flowers in hollows;And love, love sang toward.
reason dreary shed
Reason? That dreary shed, that hutch for grubby schoolboys.
country moving eye
I have come to a still, but not a deep center, A point outside the glittering current; My eyes stare at the bottom of a river, At the irregular stones, iridescent sandgrains, My mind moves in more than one place, In a country half-land, half-water. I am renewed by death, thought of my death, The dry scent of a dying garden in September, The wind fanning the ash of a low fire. What I love is near at hand, Always, in earth and air.
doe body spirit
How body from spirit slowly does unwind, until we are pure spirit at the end.
shadow visible
The visible exhausts me. I am dissolved in shadow.
feelings done dear-god
What have I done, dear God, to deserve this perpetual feeling that I'm almost ready to begin something really new?
thinking phones mad
When I go mad, I call my friends by phone: I am afraid they might think they're alone.
nature attitude flower
Deep in their roots, all flowers keep the light.
summer rain rivers
I came where the river Ran over stones; My ears knew An early joy. And all the waters Of all the streams Sang in my veins That summer day.
relationship love-is vulnerable
Love is not love until love's vulnerable.
inspirational faith teaching
What we need is more people who specialize in the impossible.
dance
And everything comes to One, As we dance on, dance on, dance on
fire desire impulse
What is desire?-- The impulse to make someone else complete? That woman would set sodden straw on fire.
joy firsts
Being, not doing, is my first joy.