Theodore Roethke - Collected poems

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The fields stretch out in long unbroken rows. We walk aware of what is far and close. Here distance is familiar as a friend. The feud we kept with space comes to an end.

Theodore Roethke

Yet for this we travelled
With hope, and not alone,
In the country of ourselves,
In a country of bright stone.

Theodore Roethke

Who rise from flesh to spirit know the fall:
The word outleaps the world, and light is all.

Theodore Roethke