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From Quotes by Theodore Roethke
- To follow the drops sliding from a lifting oar, Head up, while the rower breathes, and the small boat drifts quietly shoreward...
- 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 pines;…
- But when I breath with the birds, The spirit of wrath becomes the spirit of blessings, And the dead begin from their dark to sing…
- Over every mountain there is a path, although it may not be seen from the valley.
- How body from spirit slowly does unwind, until we are pure spirit at the end.
- My Papa's Waltz: The whiskey on your breath Could make a small boy dizzy; But I hung on like death: Such waltzing was not easy.…
- What's madness but nobility of soul At odds with circumstance? The day's on fire! I know the purity of pure despair, My shadow pinned against…
- I learned not to fear infinity, The far field, the windy cliffs of forever, The dying of time in the white light of tomorrow, The…
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