Roethke Poet Quotes & Sayings

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

Economic life, as always, is a matrix in which result becomes cause and cause becomes result. — John Kenneth Galbraith

And it was a kiss that felt like it could stop time. — Morgan Matson

Everything is so alive, that I can be alive. Without moving I can see it all. In your life I see everything that lives. — Pablo Neruda

Did you ever stop to think that God is going to be as pleased to have you with Him in Heaven as you are to be there? — A.W. Tozer

No one is too busy to do what they actually prefer. — Alan Cohen

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

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

No one should be put on trial without a valid reason. Former President Morsi must be treated with dignity. These are the conditions of national reconciliation. — Mohamed ElBaradei

Ignore what other people think. Most people aren't even paying attention to you. — Amy Poehler

Magic is the art of changing consciousness at will. — Dion Fortune

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

I think the fact that Sir Alex Ferguson rested Howard Webb had a lot to do with the result. — Noel Gallagher

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

Lord Petyr," Ned called after him. "I ... am grateful for your help. Perhaps I was wrong to distrust you." Littlefinger fingered his small pointed beard. "You are slow to learn, Lord Eddard. Distrusting me was the wisest thing you've done since you climbed down off your horse. — George R R Martin