Theodore Roethke Quotes

A mind too active is no mind at all.

– Theodore Roethke

What we need is more people who specialize in the impossible.

– Theodore Roethke

A lively understandable spirit Once entertained you. It will come again. Be still. Wait.

– Theodore Roethke

Time marks us while we are marking time.

– Theodore Roethke

I came to love, I came into my own.

– Theodore Roethke

Love is not love until love’s vulnerable.

– Theodore Roethke

God bless the roots! Body and soul are one.

– Theodore Roethke

What is madness but nobility of soul at odds with circumstance.

– Theodore Roethke

I learn by going where I have to go.

– Theodore Roethke

Love begets love. This torment is my joy.

– Theodore Roethke

The soul has many motions, body one.

– Theodore Roethke

Over every mountain there is a path, although it may not be seen from the valley.

– Theodore Roethke

Deep in their roots, all flowers keep the light.

– Theodore Roethke