“What falls away is always. And is near.
I wake to sleep, and take my waking slow.
I learn by going where I have to go.”

— Theodore Roethke, The Waking

The Waking (1953), The Waking
Source: The Collected Poems
Context: This shaking keeps me steady. I should know.
What falls away is always. And is near.
I wake to sleep, and take my waking slow.
I learn by going where I have to go.

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American poet 1908–1963

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