Roethke

Famous quotes containing the word roethke:

“I think of the nestling fallen into the deep grass,
The turtle gasping in the dusty rubble of the highway,
The paralytic stunned in the tub, and the water rising,—
All things innocent, hapless, forsaken.”
—Theodore Roethke (1908–1963)

“If only I could nudge you from this sleep,
My maimed darling, my skittery pigeon.
Over this damp grave I speak the words of my love:
I, with no rights in this matter,
Neither father nor lover.”
—Theodore Roethke (1908–1963)

“For something is amiss or out of place
When mice with wings can wear a human face.”
—Theodore Roethke (1908–1963)