Theodore Roethke - God Quotes

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God bless the roots! — Body and soul are one!
The small become the great, the great the small;
The right thing happens to the happy man.

Theodore Roethke

Brooding on God, I may become a man.
Pain wanders through my bones like a lost fire; What burns me now? Desire, desire, desire.

Theodore Roethke

What have I done, dear God, to deserve this perpetual feeling that I'm almost ready to begin something really new?

Theodore Roethke

I bleed my bones, their marrow to bestow
Upon that God who knows what I would know.

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

The poem, even a short time after being written, seems no miracle; unwritten, it seems something beyond the capacity of the gods.

Theodore Roethke

The body and the soul know how to play
In that dark world where gods have lost their way.

Theodore Roethke

The mind enters itself, and God the mind,
And one is One, free in the tearing wind.

Theodore Roethke