Theodore Roethke Quotes
Most popular Theodore Roethke Quotes
![May my silence become more accurate. - Theodore Roethke quote.](/img/q/85/785A-may-my-silence-become-more-accurate-theodore-roethke.png)
May my silence become more accurate.
![May my silences become more accurate. - Theodore Roethke quote.](/img/q/98/16398A-may-my-silences-become-more-accurate-theodore-roethke.png)
May my silences become more accurate.
![In a dark time, the eye begins to see. - Theodore Roethke quote.](/img/q/28/35028A-in-a-dark-time-the-eye-begins-see-theodore-roethke.png)
In a dark time, the eye begins to see.
![Much of poetry is an anguished waiting. - Theodore Roethke quote.](/img/q/21/37521A-much-of-poetry-is-an-anguished-waiting-theodore-roethke.png)
Much of poetry is an anguished waiting.
![Time marks us while we are marking time. - Theodore Roethke quote.](/img/q/04/14604A-time-marks-us-while-we-are-marking-time-theodore-roethke.png)
Time marks us while we are marking time.
![Truth never is undone;
Its shafts remain. - Theodore Roethke quote.](/img/q/44/41344A-truth-never-is-undone-its-shafts-remain-theodore-roethke.png)
Truth never is undone; Its shafts remain.
![Ah, when she moved, she moved more ways than one. - Theodore Roethke quote.](/img/q/55/18655A-ah-when-she-moved-she-moved-more-ways-than-one-theodore-roethke.png)
Ah, when she moved, she moved more ways than one.
![Teaching: one of the few professions that permit love. - Theodore Roethke quote.](/img/q/29/40729A-teaching-one-of-the-few-professions-that-permit-love-theodore-roethke.png)
Teaching: one of the few professions that permit love.
![One form of the death wish is the embracing of mediocrity. - Theodore Roethke quote.](/img/q/68/35668A-one-form-of-the-death-wish-is-embracing-mediocrity-theodore-roethke.png)
One form of the death wish is the embracing of mediocrity.
![What's madness but nobility of soul
At odds with circumstance? - Theodore Roethke quote.](/img/q/60/35360A-whats-madness-but-nobility-of-soul-at-odds-with-circumstance-theodore-roethke.png)
What's madness but nobility of soul At odds with circumstance?
![What we need are more people who specialize in the impossible. - Theodore Roethke quote.](/img/q/48/14948A-what-we-need-are-more-people-who-specialize-impossible-theodore-roethke.png)
What we need are more people who specialize in the impossible.
![Definition of a philosopher: a man who has the right to say maybe. - Theodore Roethke quote.](/img/q/82/37282A-definition-of-a-philosopher-a-man-who-has-right-say-theodore-roethke.png)
Definition of a philosopher: a man who has the right to say maybe.
![To be less than you are is so easy: even a child needs no lesson in this. - Theodore Roethke quote.](/img/q/35/41435A-to-be-less-than-you-are-is-so-easy-even-theodore-roethke.png)
To be less than you are is so easy: even a child needs no lesson in this.
![One of the virtues of good poetry is the fact that it irritates the mediocre. - Theodore Roethke quote.](/img/q/22/37522A-one-of-the-virtues-of-good-poetry-is-fact-that-theodore-roethke.png)
One of the virtues of good poetry is the fact that it irritates the mediocre.
![Teaching is an act of love, a spiritual cohabitation, one of the few sacred relationships left in a crass secular world. - Theodore Roethke quote.](/img/q/30/40730A-teaching-is-an-act-of-love-spiritual-cohabitation-one-few-theodore-roethke.png)
Teaching is an act of love, a spiritual cohabitation, one of the few sacred relationships left in a crass secular world.
![So much of adolescence is an ill-defined dying,
An intolerable waiting,
A longing for another place and time,
Another condition. - Theodore Roethke quote.](/img/q/31/25331A-so-much-of-adolescence-is-an-ill-defined-dying-intolerable-theodore-roethke.png)
So much of adolescence is an ill-defined dying, An intolerable waiting, A longing for another place and time, Another condition.