Theodore Roethke Quotes
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The future doesn't matter if I don't enjoy what's going on right now.
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Gandhi's ideas were rooted in a wide experience of a freshly globalized world.
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And for the few that only lend their ear, That few is all the world.
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Realizing full well that fine condition and confidence will not in themselves make a champion, it is my belief, however, that they are essential factors.
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I have a great office.
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I was born technically in D.C., and then my family moved to the Columbia area when I was in elementary school. It was right on the line between Clarksville and Columbia in Howard County. I remember it being just like a peaceful, safe atmosphere. I always felt connected to the woods and that whole suburban feel.
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I was angry but not at God. I feel that you are closer to God when you are messed up. Definitely. That's when you most need God, and God cannot control what man does.
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I travel like a gypsy, and I didn't know how I could perform and be a mother.
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There's something about the shape that a poem takes in my mind before I write it that has to do with suddenness.
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I think it's important to travel around in order to get a notion of what's going on, to find out what people are think about. I enjoy talking on campuses most because people are more informed and discussion is generally livelier.
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My conception of my ideal reader has expanded quite a lot as I've matured: Ultimately when I think of my ideal reader, it's someone who's not sitting down with the intention of automatically arguing with the book: somebody who's going to give me enough slack to tell my story.
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I like things that make you grit your teeth. I like tucking my chin in and sort of leading into the storm. I like that feeling. I like it a lot.
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I love Chanel.
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I go to various boot camps 4-5 times a week, and I try to get some Pilates in there to thin and tone.
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You have the power to remind us all that human dignity is not just a universal aspiration, but a human right.
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No visitors shall yonder valley find. Except the spirits of the rain and wind: Here you must bide, my friends, with me entombed In this dim crypt, where shelved around us lie The mummied authors.
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Having failed, do you accept failure, saying only: Well, it is so. I will turn to other things? When night comes, do you accept the blackness of it, saying only: Well, it is so. I will turn and wait for morning? Or do you go on striving to light a candle against that dark however often the wind blows out the flame, however often the night returns?
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The mind is like an umbrella - it functions best when open.
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It didn’t rain for you, maybe, but it always rains for me. The sky shatters and rains shards of glass.
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As the purse is emptied, the heart is filled.
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That terrible mood of depression of whether it's any good or not is what is known as The Artist's Reward.
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There is a kind of victory in good work, no matter how humble.
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I have no regrets about not having children. I still wait for the pang of guilt, but I have none. I tune into the television show 'Nanny 911' occasionally which reminds me how much patience and love it take to be a good parent.
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In a dark time, the mind begins to see.
