Theodore Roethke Quotes About Eyes

Quotes about: Eyes

• 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.

  Theodore Roethke

  Eye, Dark, Light

  Theodore Roethke, “In A Dark Time”

• I have come to a still, but not a deep center,
  A point outside the glittering current;
  My eyes stare at the bottom of a river,
  At the irregular stones, iridescent sandgrains,
  My mind moves in more than one place,
  In a country half-land, half-water.
  I am renewed by death, thought of my death,
  The dry scent of a dying garden in September,
  The wind fanning the ash of a low fire.
  What I love is near at hand,
  Always, in earth and air.

  Theodore Roethke

  Country, Moving, Eye

  Theodore Roethke, “The Far Field”

• Beginnings start without shade,Thinner than minnows.The live grass whirls with the sun,Feet run over the simple stones,There's time enough.Behold, in the lout's eye, love.

  Theodore Roethke

  Running, Eye, Simple

  Theodore Roethke (2011). “The Collected Poems of Theodore Roethke”, p.146, Anchor

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