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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• Some people collect vintage cars, I collect Birkins. The leather ones are £20,000.

  

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

  

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• If you're a psychologist, you can instrumentally change peoples lives for the better. But you can only do that for about 300 people to maybe a thousand people - if you're really prolific and you're working really hard.

  

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• The extras are a nice bonus feature, but the main incentive is the musical experience.

  

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• Mike Leigh taught me about making choices - as an actor, you choose between being honest and clever, and with Mike, it's always about being honest. I learned how to behave on a film set from Jim Broadbent. He was a great example of someone with a fantastic career who kept his feet on the ground.

  

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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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• Before you criticize others, remember, they may not have had the same opportunities in life as you have had

  

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• The upside to anger? Getting it out of your system. You got to express your anger. Then you have room for more positive things. If I hold something in a long time, and then I speak it, it's amazing how the light shines so much brighter.

  

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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