Theodore Roethke Quotes

What is desire? The impulse to make someone else complete? That woman would set sodden straw on fire.

Theodore Roethke

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• What is desire? The impulse to make someone else complete? That woman would set sodden straw on fire.

  

  Theodore Roethke
  • Desire
  • Fire
  • Impulse