I have known the inexorable sadness of pencils,
Neat in their boxes, dolour of pad and paper-weight,
All the misery of manilla folders and mucilage,
Desolation in immaculate public places.


'Dolour' (1948)

Theodore Roethke Quotes

I have known the inexorable sadness of pencils, Neat in their boxes, dolour of pad and paper-weight, All the misery of manilla folders and mucilage,...

I have known the inexorable sadness of pencils, Neat in their boxes, dolour of pad and paper-weight, All the misery of manilla folders and mucilage,...

I have known the inexorable sadness of pencils, Neat in their boxes, dolour of pad and paper-weight, All the misery of manilla folders and mucilage,...

I have known the inexorable sadness of pencils, Neat in their boxes, dolour of pad and paper-weight, All the misery of manilla folders and mucilage,...