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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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A mind too active is no mind at all.
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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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But when I breath with the birds, The spirit of wrath becomes the spirit of blessings, And the dead begin from their dark to sing in my sleep.
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Fear was my father, Father Fear. His look drained the stones.
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I wish I could find an event that meant as much as simple seeing.
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So much of adolescence is an ill-defined dying, An intolerable waiting, A longing for another place and time, Another condition.
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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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All lovers live by longing, and endure: Summon a vision and declare it pure.
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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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What falls away is always. And is near.
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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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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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What have I done, dear God, to deserve this perpetual feeling that I'm almost ready to begin something really new?
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Pain wanders through my bones like a lost fire
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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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And I walked, I walked through the light air I moved with the morning.
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Art is our defense against hysteria and death.
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Live in a perpetual great astonishment.
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How body from spirit slowly does unwind, until we are pure spirit at the end.
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A terrible violence of creation,A flash into the burning heart of the abominableYet if we wait, unafraid, beyond the fearful instant,The burning lake turns into a forest pool,The fire subsides into rings of water,A sunlit silence.
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