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Time marks us while we are marking time.

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
Death
Time
Marking
Marks
Suicide
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The stones were sharp, The wind came at my back Walking along the highway, Mincing like a cat.
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Reason? That dreary shed, that hutch for grubby schoolboys.
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I came to love, I came into my own.
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We think by feeling. What is there to know?
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I lose and find myself in the long water. I am gathered together once more.
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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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The visible exhausts me. I am dissolved in shadow.
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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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