Theodore Roethke Quotes

The stones were sharp, The wind came at my back; Walking along the highway, Mincing like a cat.

Theodore Roethke

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• Teenagers, especially girl ones, seem like the perfect canary-in-the-coal-mine characters to me. They capture American culture and its perversion, its hypocrisy - how absorbed we are with youth and beauty and sexualized imagery, for instance, while preaching abstinence and modesty.

  

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• The stones were sharp, The wind came at my back; Walking along the highway, Mincing like a cat.

  

  Theodore Roethke
  • Journey
  • Walking
  • Wind