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Theodore Roethke Quotes

Brief author info: Theodore Roethke (1908-1963) American poet.

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Some have held the Eye to be The instrument of lechery, More furtive than the Hand in low And vicious venery-Not so! Its rape is gentle, never more Violent than a metaphor.

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Reason? That dreary shed, that hutch for grubby schoolboys.

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So much of adolescence is an ill-defined dying, An intolerable waiting, A longing for another place and time, Another condition.

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How terrible the need for God.

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Friendship Quote

Friendship is the hardest thing in the world to explain. It's not something you learn in school. But if you haven't learned the meaning of friendship, you really haven't learned anything.

- Muhammad Ali

Sad Quote

There are times when sorrow seems the only truth.

- Oscar Wilde

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Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I'm not sure about the universe.

- Albert Einstein

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There is only one way to happiness and that is to cease worrying about things which are beyond the power of our will.

- Epictetus

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Nothing is impossible, the word itself says 'I'm possible'!

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