Theodore Roethke ( /ˈrɛtki/ RET-kee; May 25, 1908 – August 1, 1963) was an American poet, who published several volumes of poetry characterized by its rhythm, rhyming, and natural imagery. He was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for poetry in 1954 for his book, The Waking, and he won the annual National Book Award for Poetry twice, in 1959 for Words for the Wind and posthumously in 1965 for The Far Field.
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“The mind enters itself, and God the mind,
And one is One, free in the tearing wind.”
—Theodore Roethke (1908–1963)
“I have known the inexorable sadness of pencils,
Neat in their boxes, dolor of pad and paper-weight,
All the misery of manilla folders and mucilage,
Desolation in immaculate public places,”
—Theodore Roethke (1908–1963)
“Like a wet log, I sang within a flame.
In that last while, eternity’s confine,
I came to love, I came into my own.”
—Theodore Roethke (1908–1963)
“In the first of the moon,
All’s a scattering,
A shining.”
—Theodore Roethke (1908–1963)