Theodore Roethke Quotes About Desire

Quotes about: Desire

• 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”

• 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”

• The living all assemble! What's the cue?--
  Do what the clumsy partner wants to do!

  Theodore Roethke

  Desire, Want, Partners

  Theodore Roethke (2011). “The Collected Poems of Theodore Roethke”, p.161, Anchor

• What is desire?--
  The impulse to make someone else complete?
  That woman would set sodden straw on fire.

  Theodore Roethke

  Fire, Desire, Impulse

  Theodore Roethke (2011). “The Collected Poems of Theodore Roethke”, p.161, Anchor

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