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Words for the Wind Quotes
Words for the Wind: The Collected Verse
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Theodore Roethke160 ratings, 4.34 average rating, 10 reviews
Words for the Wind Quotes
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“So much of adolescence is an ill-defined dying,
An intolerable waiting,
A longing for another place and time,
Another condition.”
― Words for the Wind: The Collected Verse
An intolerable waiting,
A longing for another place and time,
Another condition.”
― Words for the Wind: The Collected Verse
“All lovers live by longing, and endure:
Summon a vision and declare it pure.”
― Words for the Wind: The Collected Verse
Summon a vision and declare it pure.”
― Words for the Wind: The Collected Verse
“I wake to sleep, and take my waking slow.”
― Words for the Wind: The Collected Verse
― Words for the Wind: The Collected Verse
“My father is a fish.”
― Words for the Wind: The Collected Verse
― Words for the Wind: The Collected Verse
“Loved heart, what can I say?
When I was a lark, I sang;
When I was a worm, I devoured.
The self says, I am;
The heart says, I am less;
The spirit says, you are nothing.”
― Words for the Wind: The Collected Verse
When I was a lark, I sang;
When I was a worm, I devoured.
The self says, I am;
The heart says, I am less;
The spirit says, you are nothing.”
― Words for the Wind: The Collected Verse
“Was I the servant of a sovereign wish,
Or ladle rattling in an empty dish?”
― Words for the Wind: The Collected Verse
Or ladle rattling in an empty dish?”
― Words for the Wind: The Collected Verse
“I feel her presence in the common day,
In that slow dark that widens every eye.
She moves as water moves, and comes to me,
Stayed by what was, and pulled by what would be.
from “She”
― Words for the Wind: The Collected Verse
In that slow dark that widens every eye.
She moves as water moves, and comes to me,
Stayed by what was, and pulled by what would be.
from “She”
― Words for the Wind: The Collected Verse
“I feel her presence in the common day,
In that slow dark that widens every eye.
She moves as water moves, and comes to me,
Stayed by what was, and pulled by what would be.
— Theodore Roethke, from “She,” Words for the Wind: The Collected Verse of Theodore Roethke (Indiana University Press, 1964)”
― Words for the Wind: The Collected Verse
In that slow dark that widens every eye.
She moves as water moves, and comes to me,
Stayed by what was, and pulled by what would be.
— Theodore Roethke, from “She,” Words for the Wind: The Collected Verse of Theodore Roethke (Indiana University Press, 1964)”
― Words for the Wind: The Collected Verse
