Quotes by Theodore Roethke

"Those who are willing to be vulnerable move among mysteries."

A lively understandable spirit Once entertained you. It will come again. Be still. Wait.

I wake to sleep, and take my waking slow.  I feel my fate in what I cannot fear. I learn by going where I have to go.

And everything comes to One, As we dance on, dance on, dance on.

Time marks us while we are marking time.

May my silences become more accurate.

I came where the river Ran over stones; My ears knew An early joy. And all the waters Of all the streams Sang in my veins That summer day.

What's madness but nobility of soul at odds with circumstance?

Love is not love until love's vunerable.

Long live the weeds that overwhelm My narrow vegetable realm! The bitter rock, the barren soil That force the son of man to toil; All things unholy, marred by curse, The ugly of the universe.