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I learn by going where I have to go.

Theodore Roethke

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Theodore Roethke
Age: 55 †
Born: 1908
Born: May 25
Died: 1963
Died: August 1
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Saginaw
Michigan
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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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We think by feeling. What is there to know?
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Who rise from flesh to spirit know the fall: The word outleaps the world, and light is all.
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Love is not love until love's vulnerable.
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The poet: would rather eat a heart than a hambone.
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The visible exhausts me. I am dissolved in shadow.
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By daily dying, I have come to be.
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The fields stretch out in long unbroken rows. We walk aware of what is far and close. Here distance is familiar as a friend. The feud we kept with space comes to an end.
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The living all assemble! What's the cue?-- Do what the clumsy partner wants to do!
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How terrible the need for God.
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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.
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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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Time marks us while we are marking time.
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I always felt mean, jogging back over the logging road,As if I had broken the natural order of things in that swamplandDisturbed some rhythm, old and of vast importance,By pulling off flesh from the living planetAs if I had committed, against the whole scheme of life, a desecration.
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How body from spirit slowly does unwind, until we are pure spirit at the end.
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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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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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And I walked, I walked through the light air I moved with the morning.
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I am overwhelmed by the beautiful disorder of poetry, the eternal virginity of words.
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A too explicit elucidation in education destroys much of the pleasure of learning. There should be room for sly hinters, masters of suggestion.
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