Busy Quote by Ted Kooser Download Open image “I farm a little plot of things to say, with not much frontage on the busy road.” — Ted Kooser ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.4 out of 5 (5 ratings) Copy quoteShare Busy Farms Inspirational Littles Plot
Farming looks mighty easy when your plow is a pencil and you're a thousand miles from the corn field. — Dwight D. Eisenhower Copy Share Image
I'm from a really small town, and everybody there drives trucks. They're all farmers. — Margo Price Copy Share Image
I have six acres in front of my own house, which I very rarely work on. Most of the work occurs on farmers' fields… — Andy Goldsworthy Copy Share Image
Running a farm is about solving a problem, and that's always interesting to me. But it's a constant process. — Chris Blackwell Copy Share Image
There's not a lot to do in a small town, but i grew up on a cattle farm... some people would say there's nothing… — Ashley McBryde Copy Share Image
A farm is like a very large and extended baby. It takes a great deal of time and very little mentality. — Anne Bosworth Greene 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
Success doesn't have a downside for me. I'm busy, but I've always been busy whatever job I've had. My very first job working in… — Victoria Derbyshire Copy Share Image
I remember till 997th film, but after that I got so busy with multiple projects; I'm not sure which one released as my 1,000th… — Brahmanandam Copy Share Image
I love to work in football, so for me it's not work. I'm not here first in the morning and last in the evening… — Daniel Farke Copy Share Image
We all have time away from football to get our head down. At the same time it is a very busy schedule. — Reece James Copy Share Image
I am on sabbatical as of right now, been too busy to think of about my OWN needs as of late. — Jim Diamond Copy Share Image
“I don't envy "busy." Busy means having a schedule, not living life. What I really covet is leisure and peace of mind. Those who… — Donna Lynn Hope Copy Share Image
I do spend a lot of weekends on the road. I have to pace myself. It can be pretty busy, but I'm not out… — Gary Sinise Copy Share Image
Our civilization, bequeathed to us by fierce adventurers, eaters of meat and hunters, is so full of hurry and combat, so busy about many… — James Joyce Copy Share Image
I have no social life. There is no time for one. Once in a while I may go to dinner with a friend but… — Liz Halliday Copy Share Image
I like acting too much and it's too, I'm just too busy doing that and I'm too hungry for it, to get behind the… — Rachel Weisz Copy Share Image
The hollow horn plays wasted words, proves to warn that he not busy being born is busy dying. — Bob Dylan Copy Share Image
