Theodore Roethke: Thing

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“I saw the separateness of all things!
My heart lifted up with the great grasses;
The weeds believed me, and the nesting birds.”

Theodore Roethke

"A Field of Light," ll. 45-47
The Lost Son and Other Poems (1948)

“The small become the great, the great the small;
The right thing happens to the happy man.”

Theodore Roethke book The Far Field

"The Right Thing," ll. 7-9
The Far Field (1964)
Context: God bless the roots! — Body and soul are one!
The small become the great, the great the small;
The right thing happens to the happy man.

Happiness

“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.”

Theodore Roethke
Bird , Light

“Let others probe the mystery if they can.
Time-harried prisoners of Shall and Will —
The right thing happens to the happy man.”

Theodore Roethke book The Far Field

"The Right Thing," ll. 1-3
The Far Field (1964)

Time , Happiness

“I always felt mean, jogging back over the logging road,
As if I had broken the natural order of things in that swampland;
Disturbed some rhythm, old and of vast importance,
By pulling off flesh from the living planet;
As if I had committed, against the whole scheme of life, a desecration.”

Theodore Roethke

"Moss-Gathering," ll. 9-13
The Lost Son and Other Poems (1948)

Life , Nature

“You must believe: a poem is a holy thing — a good poem, that is.”

Theodore Roethke

Poetry and Craft (1965)

“Great Nature has another thing to do
To you and me; so take the lively air,
And, lovely, learn by going where to go.”

Theodore Roethke The Waking

The Waking (1953), The Waking

Love , Nature , Learning