Being, not doing, is my first joy. - Theodore Roethke

Same topic Authors

Quote of the day

The person of old had the same brilliance of mind that we assume we have now. But that which made a thing become manifest for the first time is our great moment of creative happening.

Theodore Roethke

Being, not doing, is my first joy.

Firsts, Joy

Same Author Quotes

We think by feeling. What is there to know?

Feeling, Feelings, Know, Knowledge, Think, Thinking

Fear was my father, Father Fear. His look drained the stones.

Drained, Father, Fear, Looks, Stones

Too much reality can be a dazzle, a surfeit;Too close immediacy an exhaustion

Dazzle, Immediacy, Reality, Too Much

But when I breath with the birds, The spirit of wrath becomes the spirit of blessings, And the dead begin from their dark to sing in my sleep.

Blessing, Breath, Dark, Sing, Sleep, Spirit

(I measure time by how a body sways. )

Body, Measure, Sways, Time

Similar Quotes

George Jean Nathan

A life spent in constant labor is a life wasted, save a man be such a fool as to regard a fulsome obituary notice as ample reward.

Notice, Obituary, Reward, Stress, Success, Work

S. E. Cupp

A lot of Democrats have said that raising the minimum wage is both good economics and good politics. The nonpartisan CBO issued a report today saying that raising the minimum wage to $10. 10 an hour would cost the economy about 500,000 jobs. . . Why should we trust Democrats on anything when they couldn't have foreseen that this would be the case?

Foreseen, Good, Jobs, Money, Politics, Work

Louis Kahn

The person of old had the same brilliance of mind that we assume we have now. But that which made a thing become manifest for the first time is our great moment of creative happening.

Assume, Creative, Firsts, Mind, Person

Penn Jillette

The skills that we have are the actual magic skills - not the performing skills. We have to separate those. But the actual skills that make the tricks work, we don't get to use again.

Magic, Performing, Skills, Tricks, Use

Sarah Dessen

The chances we take, knowing no better than to fall or to stand back and hold ourselves in. . . protecting our hearts with the tightest of grips.

Fall, Grips, Heart, Knowing, Protecting