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The Collected Poems
  4.23 avg rating — 1,290 ratings
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1961
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Selected Poems
by Theodore Roethke, Edward Hirsch 4.16 avg rating — 86 ratings
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1969
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The Far Field
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Straw for the Fire: From the Notebooks of Theodore Roethke
by Theodore Roethke , David Wagoner 4.19 avg rating — 72 ratings
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Words for the Wind: The Collected Verse
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1900
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On Poetry and Craft: Selected Prose
by Theodore Roethke, Carolyn Kizer 4.25 avg rating — 48 ratings
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My Papa's Waltz
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The Waking
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1953
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Dirty Dinky and Other Creatures: Poems for Children
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1973
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Praise to the End!
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1951
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“Those who are willing to be vulnerable move among mysteries.”
― Theodore Roethke, Straw for the Fire: From the Notebooks of Theodore Roethke
― Theodore Roethke, Straw for the Fire: From the Notebooks of Theodore Roethke
“The Waking
I wake to sleep, and take my waking slow.
I feel my fate in what I cannot fear.
I learn by going where I have to go.
We think by feeling. What is there to know?
I hear my being dance from ear to ear.
I wake to sleep, and take my waking slow.
Of those so close beside me, which are you?
God bless the Ground! I shall walk softly there,
And learn by going where I have to go.
Light takes the Tree; but who can tell us how?
The lowly worm climbs up a winding stair;
I wake to sleep, and take my waking slow.
Great Nature has another thing to do
To you and me, so take the lively air,
And, lovely, learn by going where to go.
This shaking keeps me steady. I should know.
What falls away is always. And is near.
I wake to sleep, and take my waking slow.
I learn by going where I have to go.”
― Theodore Roethke
I wake to sleep, and take my waking slow.
I feel my fate in what I cannot fear.
I learn by going where I have to go.
We think by feeling. What is there to know?
I hear my being dance from ear to ear.
I wake to sleep, and take my waking slow.
Of those so close beside me, which are you?
God bless the Ground! I shall walk softly there,
And learn by going where I have to go.
Light takes the Tree; but who can tell us how?
The lowly worm climbs up a winding stair;
I wake to sleep, and take my waking slow.
Great Nature has another thing to do
To you and me, so take the lively air,
And, lovely, learn by going where to go.
This shaking keeps me steady. I should know.
What falls away is always. And is near.
I wake to sleep, and take my waking slow.
I learn by going where I have to go.”
― Theodore Roethke
