Edges Quote by Ted Kooser

The poem is the device through which the ordinary world is seen in a new way - engaging, compelling, even beautiful.

— Ted Kooser

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

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

“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

When she left me I stood out in the thunderstorm, hoping to be destroyed by lightning. It missed, first left, then right.

— Ted Kooser

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

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

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

Keeping a journal is like taking good care of one’s heart.

— Ted Kooser

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

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

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