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title: "2 Wake Quotes By Theodore Roethke"
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> [Light takes the Tree; but who can tell us how? The lowly worm climbs up a winding stair; I wake to sleep, and take my waking slow. Great Nature has another thing to do To you and me, so take…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/theodore-roethke/light-takes-the-tree-but-who-can-tell-us-how-the-lowly-worm-climbs-up/)

[Theodore Roethke](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/theodore-roethke/)

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> [Wake the happy words.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/theodore-roethke/wake-the-happy-words/)

[Theodore Roethke](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/theodore-roethke/)

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## More by Theodore Roethke

> [I wake to sleep, and take my waking slow. I feel my fate in what I cannot fear. I learn by going where I…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/theodore-roethke/i-wake-to-sleep-and-take-my-waking-slow-i-feel-my-fate-in-what-i/)

[Theodore Roethke](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/theodore-roethke/)

> [Those who are willing to be vulnerable move among mysteries.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/theodore-roethke/those-who-are-willing-to-be-vulnerable-move-among-mysteries/)

[Theodore Roethke](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/theodore-roethke/)

> [A lively understandable spirit Once entertained you. It will come again. Be still. Wait.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/theodore-roethke/a-lively-understandable-spirit-once-entertained-you-it-will-come/)

[Theodore Roethke](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/theodore-roethke/)

> [I came to love, I came into my own.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/theodore-roethke/i-came-to-love-i-came-into-my-own/)

[Theodore Roethke](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/theodore-roethke/)

> [I bleed my bones, their marrow to bestowUpon that God who knows what I would know.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/theodore-roethke/i-bleed-my-bones-their-marrow-to-bestowupon-that-god-who-knows-what-i/)

[Theodore Roethke](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/theodore-roethke/)

> [All finite things reveal infinitude: The mountain with its singular bright shade Like the blue shine on freshly frozen snow, The after-light upon ice-burdened…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/theodore-roethke/all-finite-things-reveal-infinitude-the-mountain-with-its-singular/)

[Theodore Roethke](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/theodore-roethke/)

> [We think by feeling. What is there to know?](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/theodore-roethke/we-think-by-feeling-what-is-there-to-know/)

[Theodore Roethke](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/theodore-roethke/)

> [I can hear, underground, that sucking and sobbing, In my veins, in my bones I feel it,- The small water seeping upward, The tight…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/theodore-roethke/i-can-hear-underground-that-sucking-and-sobbing-in-my-veins-in-my/)

[Theodore Roethke](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/theodore-roethke/)

> [Over every mountain there is a path, although it may not be seen from the valley.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/theodore-roethke/over-every-mountain-there-is-a-path-although-it-may-not-be-seen-from/)

[Theodore Roethke](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/theodore-roethke/)

> [(I measure time by how a body sways.)](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/theodore-roethke/i-measure-time-by-how-a-body-sways/)

[Theodore Roethke](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/theodore-roethke/)

> [To follow the drops sliding from a lifting oar, Head up, while the rower breathes, and the small boat drifts quietly shoreward...](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/theodore-roethke/to-follow-the-drops-sliding-from-a-lifting-oar-head-up-while-the/)

[Theodore Roethke](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/theodore-roethke/)

> [Any fool can take a bad line out of a poem; it takes a real pro to throw out a good line.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/theodore-roethke/any-fool-can-take-a-bad-line-out-of-a-poem-it-takes-a-real-pro-to/)

[Theodore Roethke](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/theodore-roethke/)

> [Love begets love. This torment is my joy.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/theodore-roethke/love-begets-love-this-torment-is-my-joy/)

[Theodore Roethke](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/theodore-roethke/)

> [“I Knew a Woman" I knew a woman, lovely in her bones, When small birds sighed, she would sigh back at them; Ah, when…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/theodore-roethke/i-knew-a-woman-i-knew-a-woman-lovely-in-her-bones-when-small-birds/)

[Theodore Roethke](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/theodore-roethke/)

> [A mind too active is no mind at all.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/theodore-roethke/a-mind-too-active-is-no-mind-at-all/)

[Theodore Roethke](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/theodore-roethke/)

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