Dazzle Quote by Theodore Roethke Download Open image “Too much reality can be a dazzle, a surfeit;Too close immediacy an exhaustion” — Theodore Roethke ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.3 out of 5 (3 ratings) Copy quoteShare Dazzle Exhaustion Immediacy Reality Too much
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Reality is like a fruitcake; pretty enough to look at but with all sorts of nasty things lurking just beneath the surface. — A. Lee Martinez Copy Share Image
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Reality is what trips you up when you walk around with your eyes closed. — F. Paul Wilson 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
The moon of a bright silver, which dazzles by its shining, illumines a world which surely is no longer ours; for it resembles in… — Pierre Loti Copy Share Image
Our senses will not admit anything extreme. Too much noise confuses us, too much light dazzles us, too great distance or nearness prevents vision,… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
May your trails be dim, lonesome, stony, narrow, winding and only slightly uphill. May the wind bring rain for the slickrock potholes fourteen miles… — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
I do feel pretty lucky that I'm not so great at playing and singing, it forces me to make sure I've really got something… — Jeffrey Lewis Copy Share Image
There is a homely directness about these rustic apothegms which makes them far more palatable than the strained and sophisticated epigrams of the characters… — Brander Matthews Copy Share Image
Scholes was playing tiki-taka football when nobody in England knew what it was. He was another of those players, like Denis Law or Bobby… — Harry Redknapp Copy Share Image
There is a glare about worldly success which is very apt to dazzle men's eyes. — Augustus William Hare Copy Share Image
It is as if my heart and my brain did not belong to the same person. Feelings come quicker than lightning and fill my… — Jean-Jacques Rousseau Copy Share Image
You may dazzle the mind with a thousand brilliant discoveries of natural science; you may open new worlds of knowledge which were never dreamed… — Rose Philippine Duchesne Copy Share Image
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