Discovery Quote by Ted Kooser Download Open image “A poem is a record of a discovery.” — Ted Kooser ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.0 out of 5 (8 ratings) Copy quoteShare Discovery Poetry Records Research
Poetry is one of the most full ways of discovering what it feels like to be a human being in this particular moment, in… — Alison Hawthorne Deming Copy Share Image
Poetry is essentially the discovery, the love, the passion for the name of everything. — Gertrude Stein Copy Share Image
The writing of a poem is, for me, in the first place, an almost total act of abandon leading to discovery leading to recognition. — Marvin Bell Copy Share Image
Poetry is an awareness of the world, a particular way of relating to reality. — Andrei Tarkovsky Copy Share Image
A poem is really a kind of machine for producing the poetic state by means of words. — Paul Verlaine Copy Share Image
A poem is a verbal artifact which must be as skillfully and solidly constructed as a table or a motorcycle. — W. H. Auden Copy Share Image
If a poem is each time new, then it is necessarily an act of discovery, a chance taken, a chance that may lead to… — A. R. Ammons 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 Image
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 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 about during… — 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 were writing… — Ted Kooser Copy Share Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 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
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 Image
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 Image
Next came the Patent laws. These began in England in 1624; and, in this country, with the adoption of our constitution. Before then [these?],… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
Throughout my work, I have assumed that the standard model is correct, and hence, the Higgs boson should be found. Although this is not… — Ashoke Sen Copy Share Image
There is usually no dreamer so unworldly as the anthologist. He wanders in a vast garden, lost in wonder, unable to decide often between… — Mary Webb Copy Share Image
New generations of humans inherit the acquired discoveries of generations past, allowing cosmic insight to accumulate without limit. Each discovery of science therefore adds… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
The discovery that heartbreak is indeed heartbreaking consoles us about our humanity. — Lionel Shriver Copy Share Image
“[W]e must learn to accommodate ourselves to the discovery that some of those cunningly-fashioned instruments called human souls have only a very limited range… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
We cannot predict the new forces, powers, and discoveries that will be disclosed to us when we reach the other planets and set up… — Arthur C. Clarke Copy Share Image
That has been another interesting discovery: that basically a city [Lagos] could recover from a really deep, deep, deep pit. — Rem Koolhaas Copy Share Image
Every fact of science was once Damned. Every invention was considered impossible. Every discovery was a nervous shock to some orthodoxy. Every artistic innovation… — Robert Anton Wilson Copy Share Image
When we look at the love of Christ, we make a wonderful discovery. Love is more a decision than an emotion! Christ-like love applauds… — Max Lucado Copy Share Image
Discovery is the ability to be puzzled by simple things. Noam Chomsky — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
“In December of 2007 human bones including skulls, which have been radiocarbon dated back to between 1304 and 1424, were found in a museum… — Captain Hank Bracker, "Seawater One Copy Share Image
