Theodore Roethke Quotes About Soul
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The body and the soul know how to play In that dark world where gods have lost their way.
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Should we say the self, once perceived, becomes the soul?
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God bless the roots! Body and soul are one.
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What is madness but nobility of soul at odds with circumstance?
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The soul has many motions, body one.
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What's madness but nobility of soul At odds with circumstance? The day's on fire! I know the purity of pure despair, My shadow pinned against a sweating wall, That place among the rocks--is it a cave, Or winding path? The edge is what I have........ ....... Dark,dark my light, and darker my desire. My soul, like some heat-maddened summer fly, Keeps buzzing at the sill. ~From "The Waking" by Theodore Roethke
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