“Teaching: one of the few professions that permit love.”
Source: Straw for the Fire: From the Notebooks of Theodore Roethke
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“We can forgive others everything but our own weaknesses.”
Source: Straw for the Fire: From the Notebooks of Theodore Roethke
“Once a week, take a day off to be generous-minded.”
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“To love objects is to love life.”
Source: Straw for the Fire: From the Notebooks of Theodore Roethke
“It's all I can do, he said, to hold onto life.”
Source: Straw for the Fire: From the Notebooks of Theodore Roethke
“I have undone myself loving the shine on stones. Must I forget the mice in the ferns? Yes.”
Source: Straw for the Fire: From the Notebooks of Theodore Roethke
Source: Straw for the Fire: From the Notebooks of Theodore Roethke
Source: Straw for the Fire: From the Notebooks of Theodore Roethke
“I'm set in one direction: toward the sun.”
Source: Straw for the Fire: From the Notebooks of Theodore Roethke
“For I believe the spiritual combat to be more desperate in the center of chaos, which is Detroit.”
Source: Straw for the Fire: From the Notebooks of Theodore Roethke
Source: Straw for the Fire: From the Notebooks of Theodore Roethke
Source: Straw for the Fire: From the Notebooks of Theodore Roethke
Source: Straw for the Fire: From the Notebooks of Theodore Roethke
Source: Straw for the Fire: From the Notebooks of Theodore Roethke
“The poem should provide that break, that vision into reality which relieves and makes alive.”
Source: Straw for the Fire: From the Notebooks of Theodore Roethke
“A poetry of longing: not for escape, but for a greater reality.”
Source: Straw for the Fire: From the Notebooks of Theodore Roethke
“We're not going to split the heart of reality: not until the third semester.”
Source: Straw for the Fire: From the Notebooks of Theodore Roethke
“Why not hate everybody? he said. It's a good and sound philosophical position.”
Source: Straw for the Fire: From the Notebooks of Theodore Roethke
“Use up the last light, love.”
Source: Straw for the Fire: From the Notebooks of Theodore Roethke