William Roetzheim > Quotes

“Ah! I intended never never to grow old … Listen: New Year’s Bell!”
― William Roetzheim, The Giant Book of Poetry eBook: The Complete Audio Edition

“Death brings the anonymity of a post office box,
allowing me to slip through the coming centuries
silent and unobserved.”
― William Roetzheim, Thoughts I Left Behind: Collected Poems of William Roetzheim

“jointures”
― William Roetzheim, The Giant Book of Poetry eBook: The Complete Audio Edition

“Gone hath the Spring, with all its flowers, and gone the Summer’s pomp and show, and Autumn, in his leafless bowers, is waiting for the Winter’s”
― William Roetzheim, The Giant Book of Poetry eBook: The Complete Audio Edition

“Courage exposes ambushes. Steadfastness destroys enemies. Keep your victories hidden. Do not sulk over defeat. Accept good. Bend before evil. Learn the rhythm which binds all men.”
― William Roetzheim, The Giant Book of Poetry eBook: The Complete Audio Edition