In A Dark Time "In A Dark Time" is a poem by Theodore Roethke

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Theodore Roethke was an influential American poet known for introspective, lyrical verse rich in natural imagery, exploring themes of identity, turmoil, etc.

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One of the virtues of good poetry is the fact that it irritates the mediocre.

- #TheodoreRoethke

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What we need is more people who specialise in the impossible.

- #TheodoreRoethke, 'On Poetry and Craft'

“The Waking” is a quiet revelation: that consciousness itself is a rhythm between knowing and unknowing.
Roethke’s refrain becomes a kind of prayer for trust, a reminder to let life lead us even when we cannot see where the path bends.
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Flowers

Deep in their roots all flowers keep the light.

- #TheodoreRoethke

“What’s madness but nobility of soul at odds with circumstance?” #TheodoreRoethke (died: 1 August 1963)

"What we need is more people who specialize in the impossible."

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May my silences become more accurate.

--- #TheodoreRoethke

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May my silences become more accurate. - Theodore Roethke

May my silences become more accurate.

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I fall, more and more,
Into my own silences.

- #TheodoreRoethke

IN A DARK TIME
By #TheodoreRoethke

In a dark time, the eye begins to see,
I meet my shadow in the deepening shade;
I hear my echo in the echoing wood–
A lord of nature weeping to a tree,
I live between the heron and the wren,
Beasts of the hill and serpents of the den.

Your #existential PSA for the day, courtesy of #TheodoreRoethke:

"One of the virtues of good poetry is the fact that it irritates the mediocre." ~Theodore Roethke

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- #TheodoreRoethke

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What have I done, dear God, to deserve this perpetual feeling that I’m almost ready to begin something really new?

- #TheodoreRoethke

What have I done, dear God, to deserve this perpetual feeling that I’m almost ready to begin something really new?

- #TheodoreRoethke

“What’s madness but nobility of soul at odds with circumstance?” - #TheodoreRoethke (died: 1 August 1963)

"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.
We think by feeling. What is there to know?
I hear my being dance from ear to ear.
I wake to sleep, and take my waking slow."
- #TheodoreRoethke (born: 25 May 1908)

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I’m skipping over his famous poems in what I highlight.

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“In a dark time, the eye begins to see”
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