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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.
Reason? That dreary shed, that hutch for grubby schoolboys.
So much of adolescence is an ill-defined dying, An intolerable waiting, A longing for another place and time, Another condition.
How terrible the need for God.
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