155 Quotes by Theodore Roethke

I learn by going where I have to go.

Love begets love. This torment is my joy.

A mind too active is no mind at all.

I came to love, I came into my own.

Let others probe the mystery if they can/ Time harried prisoners of shall and will./ The right thing happens to the happy man.

What shakes the eye but the invisible? Running from God's the longest race of all

Pain wanders through my bones like a lost fire

The soul has many motions, body one.

The poet: would rather eat a heart than a hambone.