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
eye longest race running shakes
What shakes the eye but the invisible? Running from God's the longest race of all
vision lovers longing
All lovers live by longing, and endure: Summon a vision and declare it pure.
waiting dying longing
So much of adolescence is an ill-defined dying, An intolerable waiting, A longing for another place and time, Another condition.
heart long quiet
I long for the imperishable quiet at the heart of form.
distance space long
The fields stretch out in long unbroken rows. We walk aware of what is far and close. Here distance is familiar as a friend. The feud we kept with space comes to an end.
long mind substance
And soon a branch, part of a hidden scene,The leafy mind, that long was tightly furled,Will turn its private substance into green,And young shoots spread upon our inner world.
long water together
I lose and find myself in the long water. I am gathered together once more.
happens happy mystery others prisoners shall time
Let others probe the mystery if they can/ Time harried prisoners of shall and will./ The right thing happens to the happy man.
pain fire bones
Pain wanders through my bones like a lost fire
love-is joy torment
Love begets love. This torment is my joy.
roots soul body
God bless the roots! Body and soul are one.
my-own
I came to love, I came into my own.
soul body
The soul has many motions, body one.
heart poet
The poet: would rather eat a heart than a hambone.