Roethke
Americannoun
noun
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“In a dark time,” Theodore Roethke wrote, “the eye begins to see.”
From Salon • Nov. 26, 2023
“In a dark time,” poet Theodore Roethke wrote, “the eye begins to see.”
From Salon • Oct. 31, 2023
We’re picking the Blue Moon in the University District, the place where poet Theodore Roethke, a regular, was said to celebrate his 1954 Pulitzer Prize.
From Seattle Times • Aug. 1, 2021
A more mythical “greenhouse” would become a central metaphor for Roethke later on, spawning now-revered “greenhouse poems” in several collections, such as his 1948 breakthrough, “The Lost Son and Other Poems.”
From Seattle Times • Jan. 24, 2021
One was Words for the Wind, by Theodore Roethke, and this is what I found in there: I wake to sleep, and take my waking slow.
From "Slaughterhouse-Five" by Kurt Vonnegut
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