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We think by feeling. What is there to know?

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
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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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Pain wanders through my bones like a lost fire
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I came to love, I came into my own.
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A mind too active is no mind at all.
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In the kingdom of bang and blab.
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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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Being, not doing, is my first joy.
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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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Nothing would give up life: Even the dirt keeps breathing a small breath.
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Live in a perpetual great astonishment.
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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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Art is our defense against hysteria and death.
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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 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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Who rise from flesh to spirit know the fall: The word outleaps the world, and light is all.
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I learn by going where I have to go.
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