I saw the separateness of all things!
My heart lifted up with the great grasses;
The weeds believed me, and the nesting birds.


"A Field of Light," ll. 45-47 - The Lost Son and Other Poems (1948)

Theodore Roethke Quotes

I saw the separateness of all things! My heart lifted up with the great grasses; The weeds believed me, and the nesting birds.

I saw the separateness of all things! My heart lifted up with the great grasses; The weeds believed me, and the nesting birds.

I saw the separateness of all things! My heart lifted up with the great grasses; The weeds believed me, and the nesting birds.

I saw the separateness of all things! My heart lifted up with the great grasses; The weeds believed me, and the nesting birds.