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A mind too active is no mind at all.

Theodore Roethke

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Theodore Roethke
Age: 55 †
Born: 1908
Born: May 25
Died: 1963
Died: August 1
Poet
Teacher
Writer
Saginaw
Michigan
Mind
Intuition
Active
Intelligence

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In a dark time, the eye begins to see / I meet my shadow in the deepening shade...Dark, dark my light, and darker my desire.
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I came to love, I came into my own.
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What is madness but nobility of soul at odds with circumstance?
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And soon a branch, part of a hidden scene,The leafy mind, that long was tightly furled,Will turn its private substance into green,And young shoots spread upon our inner world.
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Live in a perpetual great astonishment.
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In this place of light: he dares to live Who stops being a bird, yet beats his wings Against the immense immeasurable emptiness of things.
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Love is not love until love's vulnerable.
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By daily dying, I have come to be.
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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.
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I have gone into the waste lonely places
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Let others probe the mystery if they can.Time-harried prisoners of Shall and Will -The right thing happens to the happy man.
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Death was not. I lived in a simple drowse:Hands and hair moved through a dream of wakening blossoms.Rain sweetened the cave and the dove still calledThe flowers leaned on themselves, the flowers in hollowsAnd love, love sang toward.
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When I go mad, I call my friends by phone: I am afraid they might think they're alone.
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All lovers live by longing, and endure: Summon a vision and declare it pure.
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I lose and find myself in the long water. I am gathered together once more.
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How body from spirit slowly does unwind, until we are pure spirit at the end.
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What falls away is always. And is near.
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I am overwhelmed by the beautiful disorder of poetry, the eternal virginity of words.
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I wish I could find an event that meant as much as simple seeing.
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The visible exhausts me. I am dissolved in shadow.
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