"I trust all joy"
- Theodore Roethke
"The GeraniumWhen I put her out, once, by the garbage pail,She looked so limp and bedraggled,So foolish and trusting, like a sick poodle,Or a wizened aster in late September,I brought her back in again..."
"I learn by going where I have to go"
"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?"
"What grace I have is enough."
"Be sure that whatever you are is you."
"Self-contemplation is a curseThat makes an old confusion worse."
"I've recovered my tenderness by long looking;I'm a Socrates of small fury.The waves bends with the fish. I'm taughtAs water teaches stone. Believe me, extremest oriole,I can hear light on a dry day.Th..."
"May my silences become more accurate."
"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."