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Love is not love until love's vulnerable.

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
Vulnerable
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Love
Vulnerability

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How body from spirit slowly does unwind, until we are pure spirit at the 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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Live in a perpetual great astonishment.
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I lose and find myself in the long water. I am gathered together once more.
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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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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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