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

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

“Art is the means we have of undoing the damage of haste. It's what everything else isn't.”

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

“Dolor”

“By daily dying, I have come to be.”

“My Papa's Waltz:”

“Imagination is a very high sort of seeing, which does not come by study, but by the intellect being where and what it sees, by sharing the path, or circuits of things through forms, and so making them translucid to others.”

“I see a bird carrying me and carrying you, with us as its wings, beyond the dream, to a journey that has no end and no beginning, no purpose and no goal. I do not speak to you, and you do not speak to me; we listen only to the music of silence. Silence is the friend's trust of friend, imagination's self-confidence between rain and rainbow.”

“But I”

“i want to be”

“From a Berkeley Notebook'”

“Maybe when water yearned for fire / it invented waves / so one day they might become flames”