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Words for the Wind: The Collected Verse QUOTES

Words for the Wind: The Collected Verse QUOTES

1 " I wake to sleep, and take my waking slow. "

― Theodore Roethke , Words for the Wind: The Collected Verse

2 " My father is a fish. "

― Theodore Roethke , Words for the Wind: The Collected Verse

3 " So much of adolescence is an ill-defined dying,
An intolerable waiting,
A longing for another place and time,
Another condition. "

― Theodore Roethke , Words for the Wind: The Collected Verse

4 " All lovers live by longing, and endure:
Summon a vision and declare it pure. "

― Theodore Roethke , Words for the Wind: The Collected Verse

5 " Loved heart, what can I say?
When I was a lark, I sang;
When I was a worm, I devoured.

The self says, I am;
The heart says, I am less;
The spirit says, you are nothing. "

― Theodore Roethke , Words for the Wind: The Collected Verse

6 " I feel her presence in the common day,
In that slow dark that widens every eye.
She moves as water moves, and comes to me,
Stayed by what was, and pulled by what would be.

— Theodore Roethke, from “She,” Words for the Wind: The Collected Verse of Theodore Roethke (Indiana University Press, 1964) "

― Theodore Roethke , Words for the Wind: The Collected Verse

7 " Was I the servant of a sovereign wish,
Or ladle rattling in an empty dish? "

― Theodore Roethke , Words for the Wind: The Collected Verse

8 " I feel her presence in the common day,
In that slow dark that widens every eye.
She moves as water moves, and comes to me,
Stayed by what was, and pulled by what would be.

from “She "

― Theodore Roethke , Words for the Wind: The Collected Verse