Theodore Roethke Quotes about Waiting

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A lively understandable spirit Once entertained you. It will come again. Be still. Wait.

Inspirational, Waiting, Spirit

Theodore Roethke, Carolyn Kizer (2013). “On Poetry and Craft: Selected Prose”, p.13, Copper Canyon Press

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

Waiting, Dying, Longing

Theodore Roethke (2011). “The Collected Poems of Theodore Roethke”, p.232, Anchor