Theodore Roethke Quotes About Dying

Quotes about: Dying

• By daily dying, I have come to be.

  Theodore Roethke

  Philosophy, Philosophical, Dying

• I have come to a still, but not a deep center,
  A point outside the glittering current;
  My eyes stare at the bottom of a river,
  At the irregular stones, iridescent sandgrains,
  My mind moves in more than one place,
  In a country half-land, half-water.
  I am renewed by death, thought of my death,
  The dry scent of a dying garden in September,
  The wind fanning the ash of a low fire.
  What I love is near at hand,
  Always, in earth and air.

  Theodore Roethke

  Country, Moving, Eye

  Theodore Roethke, “The Far Field”

• 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

• I learned not to fear infinity, The far field, the windy cliffs of forever, The dying of time in the white light of tomorrow, The wheel turning away from itself, The sprawl of the wave, The on-coming water.

  Theodore Roethke

  Light, White, Water

  Theodore Roethke (2011). “The Collected Poems of Theodore Roethke”, p.288, Anchor

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