The poem is the device through which the ordinary world is seen in a new way - engaging, compelling, even beautiful. — Ted Kooser Copy Share Image
If I don't take the risk, I'll wind up with a bloodless poem. I have to be out there on the edge. — Ted Kooser Copy Share Image
“a storm that walked on legs of lightning, dragging its shaggy belly over the fields.” — Ted Kooser Copy Share Image
There's nothing wrong with delighting in what you do. In fact, most of the fun you'll have as a poet will come… — Ted Kooser Copy Share Image
One movement that I find interesting - this is not a movement in poetry necessarily, but there's a movement on a lot… — Ted Kooser Copy Share Image
My colleagues knew I was writing poems. I never hid it from them. I don't think they ever thought I was cheating… — Ted Kooser Copy Share Image
If you look at the Directory of American Poets and Writers, you know there are hundreds of poets in New York City.… — Ted Kooser Copy Share Image
Every poet gets to choose what kind of community he or she serves with the poems, and it's true that there is… — Ted Kooser Copy Share Image
When I was a kid, I suppose I got more praise for being able to draw things and paint things than I… — Ted Kooser Copy Share Image
There's always been what I would call the William Carlos Williams strain, in which poems of simplicity and clarity are valued by… — Ted Kooser Copy Share Image
I like the poem on the page and not at the podium. I like to address the poem in peace and quiet,… — Ted Kooser Copy Share Image
“Mother (fragment) ...You asked me if I would be sad when it happened and I am sad. But the iris I moved… — Ted Kooser Copy Share Image
If you can find two poems in a book, it could be a pretty good book for you. You know, two poems… — Ted Kooser Copy Share Image
“Considering the ways in which so many of us waste our time, what would be wrong with a world in which everybody… — Ted Kooser Copy Share Image
I've written some poems that are in the middle ground - who are in between very challenging and abundantly clear, but there's… — Ted Kooser Copy Share Image
The poem is the device through which the ordinary world is seen in a new way - engaging, compelling, even beautiful. — Ted Kooser Copy Share
If you can find two poems in a book, it could be a pretty good book for you. You know, two poems you really… — Ted Kooser Copy Share
There's nothing wrong with delighting in what you do. In fact, most of the fun you'll have as a poet will come about during… — Ted Kooser Copy Share
“Considering the ways in which so many of us waste our time, what would be wrong with a world in which everybody were writing… — Ted Kooser Copy Share
When she left me I stood out in the thunderstorm, hoping to be destroyed by lightning. It missed, first left, then right. — Ted Kooser Copy Share
Every poet gets to choose what kind of community he or she serves with the poems, and it's true that there is a community… — Ted Kooser Copy Share
I had in effect been thrown out of graduate school because I was a lousy graduate student, and I had to find a job,… — Ted Kooser Copy Share
When I was a kid, I suppose I got more praise for being able to draw things and paint things than I did for… — Ted Kooser Copy Share
If I don't take the risk, I'll wind up with a bloodless poem. I have to be out there on the edge. — Ted Kooser Copy Share
There's always been what I would call the William Carlos Williams strain, in which poems of simplicity and clarity are valued by a different… — Ted Kooser Copy Share
I like the poem on the page and not at the podium. I like to address the poem in peace and quiet, not on… — Ted Kooser Copy Share
a happy birthday this evening, I sat by an open window and read till the light was gone and the book was no more… — Ted Kooser Copy Share
Wallace Stevens had more time to write as an insurance agent. He was a bond lawyer and I know that insurance company lawyers don't… — Ted Kooser Copy Share
I like the idea of there being times when even words cost so much you used them sparingly. I have known a lot of… — Ted Kooser Copy Share
