Theodore Huebner Roethke (1908–63) was an American poet. He published several volumes of award-winning and critically acclaimed poetry. Roethke is regarded as one of the most accomplished and influential poets of his generation.
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So much of adolescence is an ill-defined dying, An intolerable waiting, A longing for another place and time, Another condition
—Theodore Roethke
I learn by going where I have to go.
—Theodore Roethke
Topics: Decisions, Ignorance
Love is not love until love’s vulnerable.
—Theodore Roethke
Topics: Love
Deep in their roots, all flowers keep the light.
—Theodore Roethke
Topics: Flowers
In a dark time, the eye begins to see.
—Theodore Roethke
Topics: Adversity
What is madness but nobility of soul. At odds with circumstance?
—Theodore Roethke
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