Theodore Roethke Quotes About Soul

Quotes about: Soul

• What is madness but nobility of soul at odds with circumstance?

  Theodore Roethke

  Positive, Positivity, Odds

  Theodore Roethke (2011). “The Collected Poems of Theodore Roethke”, p.341, Anchor

• Should we say the self, once perceived, becomes the soul?

  Theodore Roethke

  Self Esteem, Self Respect, Soul

  Theodore Roethke, Carolyn Kizer (2013). “On Poetry and Craft: Selected Prose”, p.37, Copper Canyon Press

• 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”

• God bless the roots! Body and soul are one.

  Theodore Roethke

  Roots, Soul, Body

  Theodore Roethke (2005). “Selected Poems”

• The soul has many motions, body one.

  Theodore Roethke

  Soul, Body

  Theodore Roethke (2011). “The Collected Poems of Theodore Roethke”, p.346, Anchor

• The body and the soul know how to play
  In that dark world where gods have lost their way.

  Theodore Roethke

  Dark, Play, Soul

  Theodore Roethke (2011). “The Collected Poems of Theodore Roethke”, p.162, Anchor

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