155 Quotes by Theodore Roethke

When I go mad, I call my friends by phone: I am afraid they might think they're alone.

I came where the river Ran over stones; My ears knew An early joy. And all the waters Of all the streams Sang in my veins That summer day.

Love is not love until love's vulnerable.

And everything comes to One, As we dance on, dance on, dance on

Love is not love until love’s vulnerable.

The darkness has it’s own light.

I have gone into the waste lonely places.

Art is the means we have of undoing the damage of haste. It’s what everything else isn’t.

What have I done, dear God, to deserve this perpetual feeling that I’m almost ready to begin something really new?