Theodore Roethke Quotes About Waiting

Quotes about: Waiting

• So much of adolescence is an ill-defined dying, An intolerable waiting, A longing for another place and time, Another condition.

  Theodore Roethke

  Waiting, Dying, Longing

  Theodore Roethke (2011). “The Collected Poems of Theodore Roethke”, p.232, Anchor

• A lively understandable spirit Once entertained you. It will come again. Be still. Wait.

  Theodore Roethke

  Inspirational, Waiting, Spirit

  Theodore Roethke, Carolyn Kizer (2013). “On Poetry and Craft: Selected Prose”, p.13, Copper Canyon Press

• A terrible violence of creation,A flash into the burning heart of the abominable;Yet 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.

  Theodore Roethke

  Heart, Fire, Lakes

  Theodore Roethke (1975). “The Collected Poems of Theodore Roethke”, Anchor Books

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