Poet Theodore Quotes & Sayings

Whatever is genuine in social relations endures, despite of time, error, absence, and destiny; and that which has no inherent vitality had better die at once. A great poet has truly declared that constancy is no virtue, but a fact. — Henry Theodore Tuckerman

Must Thibault imagine the animal (who was long since dead but when and how? He couldn't remember) skinned and braised? Milou as dinner. Once something is named it can never be eaten. Once you have called it brother in your mind it should enjoy the freedoms of a brother. — Ann Patchett

For me, the writing life doesn't just happen when I sit at the writing desk. It is a life lived with a centering principle, and mine is this: that I will pay close attention to this world I find myself in. 'My heart keeps open house,' was the way the poet Theodore Roethke put it in a poem. And rendering in language what one sees through the opened windows and doors of that house is a way of bearing witness to the mystery of what it is to be alive in this world. — Julia Alvarez

you had to have happiness to miss happiness! — Eric Jerome Dickey

I'm just very amused by five-year-old humor. — Kesha

It all looks the same in the toilet the next morning... — J. Ryan Stradal

We are optimists by instinct, pessimists by thought. — Marty Rubin

If France is to be judged, judge her not by the effects of her defeat but by her readiness to sacrifice herself. — Antoine De Saint-Exupery

I may look like a beer salesman, but I'm a poet. — Theodore Roethke

As you grow older, your whole life becomes very rich, multifaceted. — Francesca Annis

In poetry, and in my study in graduate school, I was drawn to a particular poet, Theodore Roethke. I did a dissertation on "The Evolution of Matter and Spirit in the Poetry of Theodore Roethke" for my Ph.D. — Frederick Lenz

Much Virtue in Herbs, little in Men. — Benjamin Franklin

Some folks rail against other folks, because other folks have what some folks would be glad of. — Henry Fielding

The poet: would rather eat a heart than a hambone. — Theodore Roethke

Theodore Roethke was a poet I was raised with so he has a lot of sentimental value for me. — Krist Novoselic

I'm circumcised, washed, and all one color. There is no fifty shades of peen going on down there. — Skyla Madi

Don't just get involved. Fight for your seat at the table. Better yet, fight for a seat at the head of the table. — Barack Obama

We should begin the day with the Bible, and as it comes to a close let the Word speak its wisdom to our souls. Let it be the Staff of Life upon which our spirit is nourished. Let it be the Sword of the Spirit which cuts away the evil of our lives and fashions us in His image and likeness. — Billy Graham

This message was repeated down the line until it was ringing in every guard's ears. Shots fired and nobody knew from where or by whom. And since none of the guards had guns, that meant one of the prisoners must. Maybe more than one. Now things, already serious, morphed — David Baldacci