“Act your heart. There's nothing else.”
Source: Straw for the Fire: From the Notebooks of Theodore Roethke
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Source: The Collected Poems of Theodore Roethke
“I long for the imperishable quiet at the heart of form.”
Source: The Collected Poems of Theodore Roethke
“The self says, I am; The heart says, I am less; The spirit says, you are Nothing.”
Source: The Collected Poems of Theodore Roethke
“The poet: would rather eat a heart than a hambone.”
Source: On Poetry and Craft: Selected Prose