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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Famous quotes by theodore roethke:
“When I saw that clumsy crow
Flap from a wasted tree,
A shape in the mind rose up:”
—Theodore Roethke (1908–1963)
“In the first of the moon,
All’s a scattering,
A shining.”
—Theodore Roethke (1908–1963)
“It was beginning winter,
An in-between time,
The landscape still partly brown:
The bones of weeds kept swinging in the wind,
Above the blue snow.”
—Theodore Roethke (1908–1963)
“Is that dance slowing in the mind of man
That made him think the universe could hum?”
—Theodore Roethke (1908–1963)
“All lovers live by longing, and endure:
Summon a vision and declare it pure.”
—Theodore Roethke (1908–1963)