So much of adolescence is an ill-defined dying, An intolera… - Theodore Roethke

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So much of adolescence is an ill-defined dying,
An intolerable waiting,
A longing for another place and time,
Another condition.

Theodore Roethke

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Theodore Huebner Roethke (IPA: ['ɹ ɛ t.ki]; RET-key) (25 May 1908 – 1 August 1963) was an American poet who published several volumes of poetry characterized by their rhythm and natural imagery. He was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for poetry in 1954 for his book, The Waking.

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The stones were sharp,
The wind came at my back;
Walking along the highway,
Mincing like a cat.

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.

The poem, even a short time after being written, seems no miracle; unwritten, it seems something beyond the capacity of the gods.

So much of adolescence is an ill-defined dying, An intolerable waiting, A longing for another place and time, Another condition. - Theodore Roethke

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