Theodore Roethke's Quotes

What we need is more people who specialize in the impossible.

Over every mountain there is a path, although it may not be seen from the valley.

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

Deep in their roots, all flowers keep the light.

Love begets love. This torment is my joy.

A mind too active is no mind at all.

God bless the roots! Body and soul are one.

I came to love, I came into my own.

I learn by going where I have to go.

Love is not love until love's vulnerable.

The soul has many motions, body one.

Time marks us while we are marking time.

What is madness but nobility of soul at odds with circumstance.