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Theodore Roethke 86
American poet 1908–1963Related quotes
“History, as it comes into our daily lives, is charged with surprise and shock.”
Source: The Future As History (1960), Chapter I, Part 1, The Shock of Events, p. 13

“What man can you show me who places any value on his time, who reckons the worth of each day, who understands that he is dying daily?”
Quem mihi dabis qui aliquod pretium tempori ponat, qui diem aestimet, qui intellegat se cotidie mori?
Epistulae Morales ad Lucilium (Moral Letters to Lucilius), Letter I: On Saving Time

Source: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), P. 170.

“I have a deeply hidden and inarticulate desire for something beyond the daily life.”
Source: Moments of Being
Heppenstall, Rayner. Goodman, Jonathan (ed.). The Master Eccentric: The Journals of Rayner Heppenstall, 1969-1981. London: Allison & Busby. 1986. pg. 21. ISBN 0-85031-536-0