Ted Kooser Quotes

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• I like the poem on the page and not at the podium. I like to address the poem in peace and quiet, not on the…
• This evening, I sat by an open window and read till the light was gone and the book was no more than a part of…
• Mike Forsberg's images give us bright openings onto a world. . . . Here on the Great Plains both people and trees and everything else…
• I farm a little plot of things to say, with not much frontage on the busy road.
• Just as a dancer, turning and turning, may fill the dusty light with the soft swirl of her flying skirts, our weeping willow -- now…
• Keeping a journal is like taking good care of one’s heart.
• Valentine's Day is the poet's holiday.
• When she left me I stood out in the thunderstorm, hoping to be destroyed by lightning. It missed, first left, then right.
• a happy birthday this evening, I sat by an open window and read till the light was gone and the book was no more than…
• There are mornings when everything brims with promise, even my empty cup.
• Sometimes you sense how faithfully your life is delivered, even though you can't read the address.

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