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from I Knew a Woman

I knew a woman, lovely in her bones,
When small birds sighed, she would sigh back at them;
Ah, when she moved, she moved more ways than one:
The shapes a bright container can contain!


Theodore Roethke

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THEODORE ROOSEVELT At sometime in our lives a devil dwells within us, causes heartbreaks, confusion and troubles, then ...
THEODORE ROOSEVELT No man is above the law, and no man is below it.
THEODORE ROOSEVELT Freedom from effort in the present merely means that there has been effort stored up in the past.
THEODORE ROOSEVELT There has never yet been a man in our history who led a life of ease whose name is worth remembering...
THEODORE ROOSEVELT Far better it is to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs, even though checkered by failure, ...
THEODORE ROOSEVELT The great attraction of fashion is that it diverted attention from the insoluble problems of beauty ...
THEODORE ZELDIN Kindness is more important than wisdom, and the recognition of this is the beginning of wisdom.
THEODORE RUBIN I'd get into a room and disappear into the woodwork. Now the rooms are so crowded with reporters get...
THEODORE WHITE It is not the critic who counts, not the man who points out how the strong man stumbled, or where th...
THEODORE ROOSEVELT It is very sad for a man to make himself servant to a single thing; his manhood all taken out of him...
THEODORE PARKER A liberal is a person who believes that water can be made to run uphill. A conservative is someone w...
THEODORE WHITE It is essential that there should be organization of labor. This is an era of organization. Capital ...
THEODORE ROOSEVELT It is better to be faithful than famous.
THEODORE ROOSEVELT It is easier to exemplify values than teach them.
THEODORE HESBURGH Every immigrant who comes here should be required within five years to learn English or leave the co...
THEODORE ROOSEVELT In the first place we should insist that if the immigrant who comes here in good faith becomes an Am...
THEODORE ROOSEVELT I am among those Americans whose ancestors include men and women from many different European countr...
THEODORE ROOSEVELT There can be no fifty-fifty Americanism in this country. There is room here for only 100 % Americani...
THEODORE ROOSEVELT I wish to preach, not the doctrine of ignoble ease, but the doctrine of the strenuous life.
THEODORE ROOSEVELT Self-denial is indispensable to a strong character, and the highest kind comes from a religious stoc...
THEODORE PARKER The men and women who have the right ideals... are those who have the courage to strive for the happ...
THEODORE ROOSEVELT It is impossible to win the great prizes of life without running risks, and the greatest of all priz...
THEODORE ROOSEVELT Aggressive fighting for the right is the greatest sport in the world.
THEODORE ROOSEVELT We are a rebellious nation. Our whole history is treason; our blood was attained before we were born...
THEODORE PARKER Ninety percent of everything is crap.
THEODORE STURGEON Quality in a classical Greek sense is how to live with grace and intelligence, with bravery and merc...
THEODORE WHITE Our chief usefulness to humanity rests on our combining power with high purpose. Power undirected by...
THEODORE ROOSEVELT In the first place, we should insist that if the immigrant who comes here in good faith becomes an A...
THEODORE ROOSEVELT It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where th...
THEODORE ROOSEVELT The nation behaves well if it treats the natural resources as assets which it must turn over to the ...
THEODORE ROOSEVELT Clown and guru are a single identity: the satiric and sublime side of the same higher vision of lif...
THEODORE ROZAK The first requisite of a good citizen in this republic of ours is that he shall be able and willing ...
THEODORE ROOSEVELT Remorse is the pain of sin.
THEODORE PARKER Never violate the sacredness of your individual self-respect.
THEODORE PARKER The spirit of brotherhood recognizes of necessity both the need of self-help and also the need of he...
THEODORE ROOSEVELT [America is] a rebellious nation. Our whole history is treason; our blood was attained before we wer...
THEODORE PARKER My hat is in the ring.
THEODORE ROOSEVELT The first requisite of a good citizen in this republic of ours is that he should be able and willing...
THEODORE ROOSEVELT Don't hit at all if it is honorably possible to avoid hitting; but never hit soft!
THEODORE ROOSEVELT The unforgivable crime is soft hitting. Do not hit at all if it can be avoided; but never hit softly...
THEODORE ROOSEVELT The men with the muck-rake are often indispensable to the well-being of society, but only if they k...
THEODORE ROOSEVELT Americanism means the virtues of courage, honor, justice, truth, sincerity, and hardihood—the virt...
THEODORE ROOSEVELT Don't hit at all if it is honorably possible to avoid hitting, but never hit soft.
THEODORE ROOSEVELT A man who is good enough to shed his blood for his country is good enough to be given a square dea...
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