Theodore Roethke Quotes

Long live the weeds that overwhelm My narrow vegetable realm! The bitter rock, the barren soil That force the son of man to toil; All things unholy, marred by curse, The ugly of the universe.

Theodore Roethke

• Men
• Long
• Universe
• Son
• Ugly
• Bitter
• Weed
• Curse

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• I shall be glad when you have strangled the invincible respectability that dogs your steps.

  

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• I differ materially from Capt. Lewis, in my account of the numbers, manners, and morals of the Sioux.

  

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• In an unconstitutional partnership with the state, the church can impose the most irresistible, if covert, controls conceivable.

  

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• Sometimes I feel like there are just too many things weighing on my mind at once, and I can't control my thoughts or even my body at times.

  

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• Memory is a way of telling you what's important to you.

  

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• I do stupid stuff like that: I'll call my wife from the road, send her pictures of glaciers.

  

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• I do think from time to time that conceptual questions arise: What do we mean by equilibrium? What do we mean by this concept and that concept?

  

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• It will be found, in fact, that the ingenious are always fanciful, and the truly imaginative never otherwise than analytic.

  

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• I firmly believe that you live and learn, and if you don't learn from past mistakes, then you need to be drug out and shot.

  

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• I know what it's like to be a model and go to castings where some people like what they see and others look at you with distaste.

  

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• So many venues are owned by these various different ticketing and promoting people, and they're all in bed with one another. It's no secret over here.

  

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• The very first thing I ever did, I was doing some work for the French Cultural Center. They wanted a little recording set up. And I got wire. A wire recorder. The wire came off spools, and to cut and edit, you tied it together in little square knots. Can you imagine?

  

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• Every man I knew went to bed with Gilda... and woke up with me.

  

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• Long live the weeds that overwhelm My narrow vegetable realm! The bitter rock, the barren soil That force the son of man to toil; All things unholy, marred by curse, The ugly of the universe.

  

  Theodore Roethke
  • Men
  • Long
  • Universe