Theodore Roethke Light Quotations

In this place of light: he dares to live Who stops being a bird, yet beats his wings Against the immense immeasurable emptiness of things.

In a dark time, the eye begins to see / I meet my shadow in the deepening shade...Dark, dark my light, and darker my desire.

Who rise from flesh to spirit know the fall: The word outleaps the world, and light is all.

The light comes brighter from the east; the cawOf restive crows is sharper on the ear.

The darkness has it's own light.

I learned not to fear infinity, The far field, the windy cliffs of forever, The dying of time in the white light of tomorrow, The wheel turning away from itself, The sprawl of the wave, The on-coming water.

And I walked, I walked through the light air; I moved with the morning.