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Love Quotes by Theodore Roethke
- Being, not doing, is my first joy.
- I'm sure I've been a toad, one time or another. With bats, weasels, worms...I rejoice in the kinship. Even the caterpillar I can love, and…
- Wake the happy words.
- Love is not love until love's vulnerable.
- Love begets love. This torment is my joy.
- I came to love, I came into my own.
- The soul has many motions, body one.
- The poet: would rather eat a heart than a hambone.
- Live in a perpetual great astonishment.
- You must believe a poem is a holy thing, a good poem, that is.
- And I rejoiced in being what I was.
- In the kingdom of bang and blab.
- Reason? That dreary shed, that hutch for grubby schoolboys.
- Civilization is over-rated, but there isn't much else.
- The darkness has it's own light.
- What falls away is always. And is near.
- By daily dying, I have come to be.
- (I measure time by how a body sways.)
- All lovers live by longing, and endure: Summon a vision and declare it pure.
- The visible exhausts me. I am dissolved in shadow.
- I learn by going where I have to go.
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