Theodore Roethke Quotes

Beginnings start without shade,Thinner than minnows.The live grass whirls with the sun,Feet run over the simple stones,There's time enough.Behold, in the lout's eye, love.

Theodore Roethke

• Running
• Simple
• Eye
• Enough
• Feet
• Grass
• Minnows

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• Beginnings start without shade,Thinner than minnows.The live grass whirls with the sun,Feet run over the simple stones,There's time enough.Behold, in the lout's eye, love.

  

  Theodore Roethke
  • Running
  • Simple
  • Eye