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

“What's madness but nobility of soul”

“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.”

“My Papa's Waltz:”

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

“I wake to sleep, and take my waking slow.”

“I'd rather be thin than famous”

“—I speak as one who plumbs”

“The Night Is Darkening Round M”

“And I choose to be alone”

“O Earth, lie heavily upon her eyes;”

“Poetry, she thought, wasn't written to be analyzed; it was meant to inspire without reason, to touch without understanding.”