Theodore Roethke Quotes

But when I breath with the birds, The spirit of wrath becomes the spirit of blessings, And the dead begin from their dark to sing in my sleep.

Theodore Roethke

• Dark
• Sleep
• Spirit
• Bird
• Blessing

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• Many places in the Bronx seem hidden in shadows, just as the Bronx itself is in Manhattan's shadow. And dark stories develop best in dark shadows.

  

  S. J. Rozan
  • Best
  • Dark
  • Shadow

• If there is any way you can get colder than you do when you sleep in a bedding roll on the ground in a tent in southern Tunisia two hours before dawn, I don't know about it.

  

  A. J. Liebling
  • Know
  • Sleep
  • Dawn

• Somebody has to look out for and protect our kids, and I feel blessed to be a blessing to someone else.

  

  Usher
  • Kids
  • Blessed
  • Look

• The spirit, like the body, can be strengthened and developed by frequent exercise. Just as the body, if neglected, grows weaker and finally impotent, so the spirit perishes if untended.

  

  Wassily Kandinsky
  • Body
  • Spirit
  • Exercise

• I never saw a wild thing sorry for itself. A small bird will drop frozen dead from a bough without ever having felt sorry for itself.

  

  D. H. Lawrence
  • Small
  • Sorry
  • Bird

• One who roams the channels after dark, searching for buried treasure.

  

  Harriet Van Horne
  • Dark
  • Treasure
  • Searching

• All of us in society are supposed to believe that cruelty to animals is wrong and that it is a good thing to prevent needless suffering. So if that is true, how can meat be acceptable under any but the most extraordinary circumstances, such as perhaps roasting the bird who died flying into a window?

  

  Ingrid Newkirk
  • Good
  • Believe
  • True

• If you're playing a good guy, you show some darkness. If you're playing a dark guy, you show something different, like humor, that will mix it up and hopefully surpass the audience's expectations. What I'm battling all the time is complacency in the audience. I try to bring a little mystery to what might happen because that engages people more.

  

  Campbell Scott
  • People
  • Up
  • Time

• I am a five-foot six-inch, dark, ordinary-looking man. People didn't imagine that I would make it.

  

  Nawazuddin Siddiqui
  • People
  • Man
  • Dark

• I am attracted to the dark side of life!

  

  Famke Janssen
  • Life
  • Dark
  • Side

• Artistic temperament sometimes seems a battleground, a dark angel of destruction and a bright angel of creativity wrestling.

  

  Madeleine L'Engle
  • Dark
  • Creativity
  • Angel

• Radium, discovered by Marie and Pierre Curie in 1898, was especially popular: the 'it' element of its day. Radium glows an eerie blue-green in the dark, giving off light for years without any apparent power source. People had never seen anything like it.

  

  Sam Kean
  • People
  • Power
  • Giving

• My parents used to play me this album when I couldn't go to sleep. It was called 'Deep Forest.' I think it was a self-titled record. It's actually still one of my favorite albums of all time.

  

  Flume
  • Time
  • Parents
  • Sleep

• I give bird songs to those who dwell in cities and have never heard them, make rhythms for those who know only military marches or jazz, and paint colors for those who see none.

  

  Olivier Messiaen
  • Military
  • Bird
  • Colors

• Argentina has the best bird shooting in the world.

  

  W. E. B. Griffin
  • World
  • Best
  • Bird

• Sleep - the most beautiful experience in life - except drink.

  

  W. C. Fields
  • Life
  • Experience
  • Beautiful

• Be, as you have been, my happiness;Let me sleep beside you, each night, like a spoon.

  

  Randall Jarrell
  • Night
  • Sleep

• A candle is enough to light the world. It makes it clear. Even at noon It glistens in essential dark. At night, it lights the fruit and wine, The book and bread, things as they are...

  

  Wallace Stevens
  • World
  • Book
  • Night

• I had not failed to interpret the significance of that dark frown, that bitten lip and those flashing eyes, nor the way the willowy figure had quivered, indicating, unless she had caught a chill, that she was as sore as a sunburned neck.

  

  P. G. Wodehouse
  • Eyes
  • Dark
  • Chill

• Good governance, safety, a chance to grow economically and professionally - those are important things.

  

  Dana Perino
  • Good
  • Important
  • Chance

• Home sales are coming down from the mountain peak, but they will level out at a high plateau - a plateau that is higher than previous peaks in the housing cycle.

  

  David Lereah
  • Home
  • Mountain
  • Depression

• Women are very unpredictable.

  

  Francois Nars
  • Women

• The choice is not normally between the north and south. It might be between Britain and Europe.

  

  John Prescott

• But when I breath with the birds, The spirit of wrath becomes the spirit of blessings, And the dead begin from their dark to sing in my sleep.

  

  Theodore Roethke
  • Dark
  • Sleep
  • Spirit