"When true love broke my heart in half,I took the whiskey from the shelf,And told my neighbors when to laugh.I keep a dog, and bark myself.












By daily dying, I have come to be.

More Theodore Roethke quotes
"Dark, dark my light, and darker my desire.My soul, like some heat-maddened summer fly,Keeps buzzing at the sill. Which I is I?
"Love alters all. Unblood my instinct, love.
"My Papa's Waltz:The whiskey on your breathCould make a small boy dizzy;But I hung on like death:Such waltzing was not easy.We romped until the pansSli...
"What's madness but nobility of soulAt odds with circumstance? The day's on fire!I know the purity of pure despair,My shadow pinned against a sweating ...
"What grace I have is enough.
"Those who are willing to be vulnerable move among mysteries.
"What is madness but nobility of the soul at odds with circumstance.
"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.