Quotes About Theodore Roethke

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

The Mistake He left his pants upon a chair: She was a widow, so she said: But he was apprehended, bare, By one who rose up from the dead.

Is pain a promise? I was schooled in pain, And found out all I could of all desire;

The whiskey on your breathCould make a small boy dizzy;But I hung on like death:Such waltzing was not easy.

What is desire?-- The impulse to make someone else complete? That woman would set sodden straw on fire.