Source: The achievement of Theodore Roethke: a comprehensive selection of his poems
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Famous Theodore Roethke Quotes
“Who rise from flesh to spirit know the fall: The word outleaps the world, and light is all.”
Source: The Collected Poems of Theodore Roethke
“A lively understandable spirit Once entertained you. It will come again. Be still. Wait.”
Source: On Poetry and Craft: Selected Prose
“Those who are willing to be vulnerable move among mysteries.”
Source: Straw for the Fire: From the Notebooks of Theodore Roethke, 1943-63
“How body from spirit slowly does unwind, until we are pure spirit at the end.”
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