Quotes by Theodore Roethke

• I came to love, I came into my own.
• I learn by going where I have to go.
• A mind too active is no mind at all.
• God bless the roots! Body and soul are one.
• A lively understandable spirit Once entertained you. It will come again. Be still. Wait.
• Deep in their roots, all flowers keep the light.
• Over every mountain there is a path, although it may not be seen from the valley.
• Love is not love until love's vulnerable.
• Love begets love. This torment is my joy.
• The soul has many motions, body one.
• What is madness but nobility of soul at odds with circumstance.
• Time marks us while we are marking time.
• What we need is more people who specialize in the impossible.