Theodore Roethke - Air Quotes

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What I love is near at hand,
Always, in earth and air.

Theodore Roethke

Great Nature has another thing to do
To you and me; so take the lively air,
And, lovely, learn by going where to go.

Theodore Roethke

The mind moved, not alone,
Through the clear air, in the silence.

Theodore Roethke

The moon draws back its waters from the shore.
By the lake's edge, I see a silver swan,
And she is what I would. In this light air,
Lost opposites bend down —
Sing of that nothing of which all is made,
Or listen into silence, like a god.

Theodore Roethke

Like witches they flew along rows,
Keeping creation at ease;
With a tendril for needle
They sewed up the air with a stem;
They teased out the seed that the cold kept asleep, —
All the coils, loops and whorls.
They trellised the sun; they plotted for more than themselves.

Theodore Roethke

I see, in evening air,
How slowly dark comes down on what we do.

Theodore Roethke

And I walked, I walked through the light air; I moved with the morning.

Theodore Roethke