Theodore Roethke

A lively understandable spirit Once entertained you. It will come again. Be still. Wait.

God bless the roots! Body and soul are one.

I wake to sleep, and take my waking slow. I feel my fate in what I cannot fear. I learn by going where I have to go.

What's madness but nobility of soul At odds with circumstance?

In a dark time the eye begins to see.