Straw for the Fire Quotes

“Those who are willing to be vulnerable move among mysteries.”
― Theodore Roethke, Straw for the Fire: From the Notebooks of Theodore Roethke

“Art is the means we have of undoing the damage of haste. It's what everything else isn't.”
― Theodore Roethke, Straw for the Fire: From the Notebooks of Theodore Roethke

“It’s your privilege to find me incomprehensible. I gave you my minutes; let them remain ours. I hope I haunt you.”
― Theodore Roethke, Straw for the Fire: From the Notebooks of Theodore Roethke

“I trust all joy”
― Theodore Roethke, Straw for the Fire: From the Notebooks of Theodore Roethke

“O my poor words, bear with me.”
― Theodore Roethke, Straw for the Fire: From the Notebooks of Theodore Roethke

“We live by being what we should not be.”
― Theodore Roethke, Straw for the Fire: From the Notebooks of Theodore Roethke

“I slept with Yes, but woke to No.”
― Theodore Roethke, Straw for the Fire: From the Notebooks of Theodore Roethke

“Remind yourself once more of the absolute holiness of your task.”
― Theodore Roethke, Straw for the Fire: From the Notebooks of Theodore Roethke

“The greatest assassin of life is haste.”
― Theodore Roethke, Straw for the Fire: From the Notebooks of Theodore Roethke

“In poetry, there are no casual readers.”
― Theodore Roethke, Straw for the Fire: From the Notebooks of Theodore Roethke

“After Mr. Richard M. Nixon, I feel that sincerity is no longer possible as a public attitude.”
― Theodore Roethke, Straw for the Fire: From the Notebooks of Theodore Roethke

“Democracy: where the semi-literate make laws and the illiterate enforce them.”
― Theodore Roethke, Straw for the Fire: From the Notebooks of Theodore Roethke

“What a frail but persistent weapon civilization is: how fragile the handful of concepts: yet tough as wire.”
― Theodore Roethke, Straw for the Fire: From the Notebooks of Theodore Roethke

“The professor is supposed to know. I am not of that breed.”
― Theodore Roethke, Straw for the Fire: From the Notebooks of Theodore Roethke

“Listen to the haters: they may remind you of new ways to love.”
― Theodore Roethke, Straw for the Fire: From the Notebooks of Theodore Roethke

“The great mystery of Christianity is how it has lasted so long.”
― Theodore Roethke, Straw for the Fire: From the Notebooks of Theodore Roethke

“Will's a heady master: don't follow.”
― Theodore Roethke, Straw for the Fire: From the Notebooks of Theodore Roethke

“Civilization is overrated: but there isn't anything much else.”
― Theodore Roethke, Straw for the Fire: From the Notebooks of Theodore Roethke

“Surely goodness and mercy can be more choosy.”
― Theodore Roethke, Straw for the Fire: From the Notebooks of Theodore Roethke

“In spite of all the paraphernalia for keeping things together, how haphazard life is, and the judgments of time.”
― Theodore Roethke, Straw for the Fire: From the Notebooks of Theodore Roethke

“Even a piece of bad writing can have its own mysterious life, and be a fascination.”
― Theodore Roethke, Straw for the Fire: From the Notebooks of Theodore Roethke

“A poetry of longing: not for escape, but for a greater reality.”
― Theodore Roethke, Straw for the Fire: From the Notebooks of Theodore Roethke

“The poem should provide that break, that vision into reality which relieves and makes alive.”
― Theodore Roethke, Straw for the Fire: From the Notebooks of Theodore Roethke

“The most difficult thing to remember: that a poem is made of words.”
― Theodore Roethke, Straw for the Fire: From the Notebooks of Theodore Roethke

“Hatred of life can rise to a mystical state.”
― Theodore Roethke, Straw for the Fire: From the Notebooks of Theodore Roethke

“There is no end to what should be known about words.”
― Theodore Roethke, Straw for the Fire: From the Notebooks of Theodore Roethke

“Live in a perpetual great astonishment.”
― Theodore Roethke, Straw for the Fire: From the Notebooks of Theodore Roethke

“Move over, sensitive sad minds.”
― Theodore Roethke, Straw for the Fire: From the Notebooks of Theodore Roethke

“I am a poet: I am always hungry.”
― theodore roethke, Straw for the Fire: From the Notebooks of Theodore Roethke

“The young artist: there is no other kind of mind but my own.”
― Theodore Roethke, Straw for the Fire: From the Notebooks of Theodore Roethke