Heart Quote by Theodore Roethke Download Open image “The poet: would rather eat a heart than a hambone.” — Theodore Roethke ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.2 out of 5 (3 ratings) Copy quoteShare Heart Inspirational Love Poet Poetry
“Just about everyone has the heart of a poet inside them, yet sometimes you need to break through the rib cage to reach it.” — Cody Edward Lee Miller Copy Share Image
“Hearts are wild creatures. That’s why our ribs are cages. —AUTHOR UNKNOWN” — Darynda Jones Copy Share Image
“When we slid the body into the grave, we both were shaken to the core. The loss we felt was not the loss of… — E. B. White Copy Share Image
“He knows the pain of the heart is much greater than the pain of the body” — Bry Ann Copy Share Image
“What poet was it who wrote there's no pain worse than the pain of a broken heart? Sentimental shit. He should have spent more… — joe abercrombie Copy Share Image
“poetry melts my bones. enters my blood. and changes its composition.” — Sanober Khan Copy Share Image
“My earliest poems appear almost skeletal to me now - it seems I've learned to add meat, muscle and a nice suit of clothes.” — Wanda Lea Brayton Copy Share Image
“When you move so quickly from innocence to a world of fear, pain and loss, it's as if the flesh of your heart and… — Leymah Gbowee Copy Share Image
“Why do you eat your own heart? Because, O King, it is bitter, and because it is my heart.” — Lilith Saintcrow Copy Share Image
“...who shall measure the heat and violence of a poet's heart when caught and tangled in a woman's body?” — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
I wake to sleep, and take my waking slow. I feel my fate in what I cannot fear. I learn by going where I… — Theodore Roethke Copy Share Image
A lively understandable spirit Once entertained you. It will come again. Be still. Wait. — Theodore Roethke Copy Share Image
I bleed my bones, their marrow to bestowUpon that God who knows what I would know. — Theodore Roethke Copy Share Image
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… — Theodore Roethke Copy Share Image
I can hear, underground, that sucking and sobbing, In my veins, in my bones I feel it,- The small water seeping upward, The tight… — Theodore Roethke Copy Share Image
Over every mountain there is a path, although it may not be seen from the valley. — Theodore Roethke Copy Share Image
To follow the drops sliding from a lifting oar, Head up, while the rower breathes, and the small boat drifts quietly shoreward... — Theodore Roethke Copy Share Image
Any fool can take a bad line out of a poem; it takes a real pro to throw out a good line. — Theodore Roethke Copy Share Image
My heart jumps out of its cage to see what the fuss is about. Damn thing. Always so hopeful, but my voice hides it… — Sarah Wylie Copy Share Image
I love because there is not enough room in my heart to hate. — Rena Kornreich Gelissen Copy Share Image
The United States cannot and should not discriminate on the basis of religion. The free exercise of religion is at the very heart of… — Mike Pence Copy Share Image
Love is like that, fragile and light. No wonder it rests upon our hearts in intangible moments, bids us follow fleeting thoughts and ideas… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
When we are capable of living in the moment free from the tyranny of "shoulds," free from the nagging sensation that this moment isn't… — Joan Z. Borysenko Copy Share Image
My father longed for a better life for us, and when I was nine he got a job as a heart surgeon in Belfast.… — Katie Melua Copy Share Image
Love will fan the flame, and that flame will warm the heart that's waiting. — Michael W. Smith Copy Share Image
Always have the fear of God in your heart, and remember that God is always with you, everywhere, whether you are walking or sitting. — Gennadius of Constantinople Copy Share Image
Set NOT your hearts on the flowers of this world. They shall fade and die. Prize the Rose of Sharon and the Lily of… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Your pain is the breaking of the shell that encloses your understanding. Even as the stone of the fruit must break, that its heart… — Khalil Gibran Copy Share Image
