Theodore Roethke Quotes About Madness

Quotes about: Madness

• What is madness but nobility of soul at odds with circumstance?

  Theodore Roethke

  Positive, Positivity, Odds

  Theodore Roethke (2011). “The Collected Poems of Theodore Roethke”, p.341, Anchor

• I can't go on flying apart just for those who want the benefit of a few verbal kicks. My God, do you know what poems like that cost? They're not written vicariously: they come out of actual suffering, real madness.

  Theodore Roethke

  Real, Flying, Suffering

• What's madness but nobility of soul At odds with circumstance? The day's on fire! I know the purity of pure despair, My shadow pinned against a sweating wall, That place among the rocks--is it a cave, Or winding path? The edge is what I have........ ....... Dark,dark my light, and darker my desire. My soul, like some heat-maddened summer fly, Keeps buzzing at the sill. ~From "The Waking" by Theodore Roethke

  Theodore Roethke

  Summer, Wall, Dark

  Theodore Roethke, “In A Dark Time”

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