Roethke Quotes

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

What shakes the eye but the invisible? Running from God's the longest race of all. - Theodore Roethke

Time marks us while we are marking time. - Theodore Roethke

Theodore Roethke was a poet I was raised with so he has a lot of sentimental value for me. - Krist Novoselic

The soul has many motions, body one. - Theodore Roethke

So much of adolescence is an ill-defined dying, An intolerable waiting, A longing for another place and time, Another condition. - Theodore Roethke

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

Love is not love until love's vulnerable. - Theodore Roethke

Love begets love. This torment is my joy. - Theodore Roethke