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“Fear was my father, Father Fear. His look drained the stones.”

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Book:The Collected Poems of Theodore Roethke

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The Collected Poems of Theodore Roethke

This volume brings together a selection of Theodore Roethke's most celebrated poems, reflecting his exploration of themes such as nature, love, and the human condition. Roethke's work is known for its vivid imagery and profound emotional resonance. more

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Theodore Roethke

Theodore Roethke was an American poet known for his deep emotions and rich imagination. His poetry often explores themes of human emotion and the natural world, enjoying great popularity among readers. more

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“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.”

World Mind Long Young Turns Scene Green Spread Substance Branches Inner World

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Source: The Collected Poems of Theodore Roethke

“My truths are all foreknown,This anguish self-revealed.I'm naked to the bone,With nakedness my shield.”

Self Bones Naked Anguish Shields My Truth

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“The light comes brighter from the east; the cawOf restive crows is sharper on the ear.”

Light Ears East Brighter Crow

Author:Theodore Roethke

“I always felt mean, jogging back over the logging road,As if I had broken the natural order of things in that swampland;Disturbed some rhythm, old and of vast importance,By pulling off flesh from the living planet;As if I had committed, against the whole scheme of life, a desecration.”

Ifs Mean Whole Order Felt Natural Planets Broken Importance Committed Flesh Rhythm Schemes Pulling Disturbed Jogging Natural Order Logging

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Source: The Collected Poems of Theodore Roethke

“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.”

Stills Dream Hands Simple Flower Hair Rain And Love Moved Caves Dove

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“Beginnings start without shade,Thinner than minnows.The live grass whirls with the sun,Feet run over the simple stones,There's time enough.Behold, in the lout's eye, love.”

Enough Eye Running Simple Sun Feet Stones Grass Shade Minnows

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Source: The Collected Poems of Theodore Roethke

“Too much reality can be a dazzle, a surfeit;Too close immediacy an exhaustion”

Reality Too Much Exhaustion Dazzle Immediacy

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Source: The Collected Poems of Theodore Roethke

“A terrible violence of creation,A flash into the burning heart of the abominable;Yet if we wait, unafraid, beyond the fearful instant,The burning lake turns into a forest pool,The fire subsides into rings of water,A sunlit silence.”

Ifs Heart Turns Waiting Water Silence Fire Violence Creation Terrible Rings Forests Burning Instant Lakes Pool Fearful Flash Unafraid Burning Heart

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Source: The Collected Poems of Theodore Roethke

“I bleed my bones, their marrow to bestowUpon that God who knows what I would know.”

Knows Bones Marrow

Book:The Collected Poems of Theodore Roethke

Source: The Collected Poems of Theodore Roethke

“Let others probe the mystery if they can.Time-harried prisoners of Shall and Will -The right thing happens to the happy man.”

Ifs Men Happens Mystery Things Happen Right Thing Prisoner Happy Man

Author:Theodore Roethke