Mother Quote by Ted Kooser Download Open image ““a storm that walked on legs of lightning, dragging its shaggy belly over the fields.”” — Ted Kooser ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.2 out of 5 (3 ratings) Copy quoteShare Mother Poetry Storm
“The storm walked around the hills on legs of lightning, shouting and grumbling.” — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
“Magical flowers were humming. The turf slopes cradled *him.* Beasts of a fabulous elegance were circulating. Storm clouds were piling up on the rising… — Arthur Rimbaud Copy Share Image
“..and then it started hailing. It was so beautiful and scary, I wondered about the science of storms and how sometimes it seemed that… — Benjamin Alire Sáenz Copy Share Image
“Lightening flashed again and again but above the shriek of the wind and the pounding hail they never heard the thunder.” — Samuel Snoek-Brown Copy Share Image
“Over the village of Paradise lightning jumped from cloud to cloud and then it put down long legs and walked the earth.” — Sara Donati Copy Share Image
“He Who Wafts Gently with the Wind Becomes as Mighty as the Thunderstorm.” — Rae Carson Copy Share Image
“Frequent bolts of lightning shot down from the sky, illuminating the purple violence of the roiling clouds.” — T.L. Haddix Copy Share Image
“He was thunder and lightning and rain, and she was the earth and flowers that drank up the storm.” — Sabrina Jeffries Copy Share Image
“He is my thunderstorm, the lighting coursing through my veins. I am his hurricane, his colorful bow of rain.” — Melody Lee Copy Share Image
“You are lightning made flesh. Colder than falling snow. Unstoppable as the desert sands riding the wind. You are Stormling, Aurora Pavan. Believe it.” — Cora Carmack Copy Share Image
“...The silence of a place where there were once horses is a mountain and I have seen by lightning that ever mountain once fell… — W.S. Merwin 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 like. There are some poets who are fairly big names in contemporary poetry and who write a book and I might like three or four poems in the book, but the rest of them don't appeal… — 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 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 poems? After all, there’s a significant service to humanity in spending time doing no harm. While you’re writing your poem, there’s one less scoundrel in the world. And I’d like a world, wouldn’t you, in which… — 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 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 for very difficult, challenging poetry. It's a community that's established itself over the last 80 years, that was originally, in effect, really started by T. S. Eliot and Ezra Pound. They believed that poetry ought to… — 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, and I took the first job that came along. It happened to be a management trainee job in a life insurance company, and I just stayed. It was always, mainly, the idea was that I would… — 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 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 the edge of a folding chair with a full bladder. I can't stand hearing a poem that I can't see. I did a reading at Wayne State, and it ended with the comedy such occasions deserve.… — Ted Kooser Copy Share
My mother says I didn't open my eyes for eight days after I was born, but when I did, the first thing I saw… — Elizabeth Taylor Copy Share Image
Laughing, laughing, laughing, laughing! It is the jester! A voice from the Void, to cheer poor Cicero! I accept your gift, dearest Night Mother.… — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
(knitting while on a motorcycle) "For several years she knitted in secret (my father would not approve; she was to concentrate on motorcycling and LEAN into the curves, etc), and used a small circular needle (socks and mittens) in order to keep the knitting in her pocket until they were under way; then she leaned back slightly so Gaffer couldn't… — Elizabeth Zimmermann Copy Share
My mother was strong-willed, demanding, and very supportive all at the same time. — Michael Spence Copy Share Image
Everything comes home, my mother used to say; every word spoken, every shadow cast, every footprint in the sand. It can't be helped; it's… — Joanne Harris Copy Share Image
One of the ways that I discovered my confidence and my ability to overpower is becoming a mother. Suddenly, my world wasn't about myself… — Lights Copy Share Image
Surely, if Mother Nature had been consulted, she would never have consented to building a city in New Orleans. — Mortimer Zuckerman Copy Share Image
Peace is the first thing the angels sang. Peace is the mark of the children of God. Peace is the nurse of love. Peace… — Pope Leo I Copy Share Image
I'm a strange mixture of my mother's curiosity; my father, who grew up the son of the manse in a Presbyterian family, who had… — Rupert Murdoch Copy Share Image
