Theodore Roethke frasi celebri
Theodore Roethke: Frasi in inglese
"Open House," ll. 7 - 11
Open House (1941)
“Poetry is not a mere shuffling of dead words or even a corralling of live ones.”
Origine: Poetry and Craft (1965), p. 89
"Frau Bauman, Frau Schmidt, and Frau Schwartze," ll. 19-25
The Lost Son and Other Poems (1948)
Contesto: Like witches they flew along rows,
Keeping creation at ease;
With a tendril for needle
They sewed up the air with a stem;
They teased out the seed that the cold kept asleep, —
All the coils, loops and whorls.
They trellised the sun; they plotted for more than themselves.
“Too much reality can be a dazzle, a surfeit;
Too close immediacy an exhaustion”
Theodore Roethke libro The Far Field
"The Abyss"
The Far Field (1964)
“By daily dying, I have come to be.”
Origine: The Collected Poems
“Art is the means we have of undoing the damage of haste. It's what everything else isn't.”
Poetry and Craft (1965)
Origine: On Poetry and Craft: Selected Prose
Theodore Roethke The Waking
The Waking (1953), The Waking
Origine: The Collected Poems
Contesto: 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.
“Pain wanders through my bones like a lost fire;
What burns me now? Desire, desire, desire.”
Theodore Roethke libro The Far Field
"The Marrow," ll. 11-12
The Far Field (1964)
Origine: Words for the Wind: The Collected Verse
“What's madness but nobility of soul at odds with circumstance?”
Theodore Roethke libro The Far Field
Origine: The Far Field
“A mind too active is no mind at all.”
Origine: The Selected Letters of Theodore Roethke
“I have gone into the waste lonely places
Behind the eye.”
"Meditations of an Old Woman: First Meditation," ll. 76-77
Words for the Wind (1958)
“Nothing would sleep in that cellar, dank as a ditch”
"Root Cellar," l. 1
The Lost Son and Other Poems (1948)
“The light comes brighter from the east; the caw
Of restive crows is sharper on the ear.”
"The Light Comes Brighter," ll. 1-2
Open House (1941)
Theodore Roethke The Waking
"Four for Sir John Davies," ll. 19-24
The Waking (1953)
The Lost Son, ll. 32 - 35
The Lost Son and Other Poems (1948)
Theodore Roethke libro The Far Field
"The Right Thing," ll. 1-3
The Far Field (1964)
"The Swan," ll. 15-20
Words for the Wind (1958)
