Poetry Quote by Theodore Roethke — Inspiring Words on Life, Love & Wisdom

“In a dark time, the eye begins to see.”

“By daily dying, I have come to be.”

“My Papa's Waltz:”

“What's madness but nobility of soul”

“What is madness but nobility of the soul at odds with circumstance.”

“Dolor”

“A writer is not so much someone who has something to say as he is someone who has found a process that will bring about new things he would not have thought of if he had not started to say them.”

“[Short Talk on the Sensation of Airplane Takeoff] Well you know I wonder, it could be love running toward my life with its arms up yelling”

“The flower bloomed and faded. The sun rose and sank. The lover loved and went. And what the poets said in rhyme, the young translated into practice.”

“The world has never favored the experimental life. It despises poets, fanatics, prophets and lovers.”

“Not everything can be felt and not everything will be ever understood.”

“O words are poor receipts for what time hath stole away”