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One Quotes by Theodore Roethke
- 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…
- O Lord, may I never want to look good. O Jesus, may I always read it all: out loud and the very way it should…
- God bless the roots! Body and soul are one.
- The soul has many motions, body one.
- 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;…
- 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.…
- But still the delicate slips keepcoaxing up water; The small cells bulge; One nub of growth Nudges a sand-crumb loose,
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