“A beau is everything of a woman but the sex, and nothing of a man beside it.”
“Live in a perpetual great astonishment.”
Source : Theodore Roethke (2006). “Straw for the Fire: From the Notebooks of Theodore Roethke, 1943-63”, p.175, Copper Canyon Press
“The heart has arguments with which the logic of mind is not aquainted.”
“When the systems we expect to help us actually hurt us, we have tragedy.”