25 ordspråk av Theodore Roethke
Theodore Roethke
A lively understandable spirit Once entertained you. It will come again. Be still. Wait.
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A mind too active is no mind at all
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All finite things reveal infinitude: The mountain with its singular bright shade Like the blue shine on freshly frozen snow, The after-light upon ice-burdened pines; Odor of basswood upon a mountain slope, A scene beloved of bees; Silence of wate
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All lovers live by longing, and endure; summon a vision and declare it pure
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And everything comes to One, As we dance on, dance on, dance on
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Art is the means we have of undoing the damage of
haste. It's what everything else isn't.
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By daily dying I have come to be.
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Deep in their roots, all flowers keep the light.
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God bless the roots! Body and soul are one
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I came to love, I came into my own.
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I learn by going where I have to go
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I learn by going where I have to go
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I wake to sleep, and take my waking slow.
I feel my fate in what I cannot fear.
I learn by going where I cannot go.
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In a dark time, the eye begins to see.
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Let others probe the mystery if they can/ Time harried prisoners of shall and will./ The right thing happens to the happy man.
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