A lively understandable spirit Once entertained you. It will come again. Be still. Wait.
Theodore RoethkeSo much of adolescence is an ill-defined dying, An intolerable waiting, A longing for another place and time, Another condition.
Theodore RoethkeIn this place of light: he dares to live Who stops being a bird, yet beats his wings Against the immense immeasurable emptiness of things.
Theodore Roethke