Tyler

“The Surly One

1
When true love broke my heart in half,
I took the whisky from the shelf,
And told my neighbors when to laugh.
I keep a dog, and bark myself.

2
Ghost cries out to ghost –
But who’s afraid of that?
I fear those shadows most
That start from my own feet.”
― Theodore Roethke

“Wish For A Young Wife

My lizard, my lively writher
May your limbs never wither
May the eyes in your face
Survive the green ice
Of envy's mean gaze;

May you live out your life
Without hate, without grief,
And your hair ever blaze,
In the sun, in the sun,
When I am undone,
When I am no one.”
― Theodore Roethke

“Better to write for yourself and have no public, than to write for the public and have no self."

[The New Statesman, February 25, 1933]”
― Cyril Connolly

“Anyone who doesn't take truth seriously in small matters cannot be trusted in large ones either.”
― Albert Einstein