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Top 15 Ted Kooser Quotes (2025 Update)

Ted Kooser Quote: “A poem is a record of a discovery.”

1. “A poem is a record of a discovery.”

Ted Kooser Quote: “If I don’t take the risk, I’ll wind up with a bloodless poem. I have to be out there on the edge.”

2. “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 Quote: “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 the darkness...”

3. “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 the darkness...”

Ted Kooser Quote: “Keeping a journal is like taking good care of one’s heart.”

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

Ted Kooser Quote: “Valentine’s Day is the poet’s holiday.”

5. “Valentine’s Day is the poet’s holiday.”

Ted Kooser Quote: “When she left me I stood out in the thunderstorm, hoping to be destroyed by lightning. It missed, first left, then right.”

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

Ted Kooser Quote: “I like the idea of there being times when even words cost so much you used them sparingly. I have known a lot of old men and women who talked as if they were paying Western Union by the word.”

7. “I like the idea of there being times when even words cost so much you used them sparingly. I have known a lot of old men and women who talked as if they were paying Western Union by the word.”

Ted Kooser Quote: “The poem is the device through which the ordinary world is seen in a new way – engaging, compelling, even beautiful.”

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

Ted Kooser Quote: “All night, this soft rain from The distant past. No wonder I sometimes Waken as a child.”

9. “All night, this soft rain from The distant past. No wonder I sometimes Waken as a child.”

Ted Kooser Quote: “Sometimes you sense how faithfully your life is delivered, even though you can’t read the address.”

10. “Sometimes you sense how faithfully your life is delivered, even though you can’t read the address.”

Ted Kooser Quote: “Coyote hunting can’t be justified on the basis of the damage they do. Shooting coyotes is really just fun, a man with a high-powered rifle trying to see if he can kill a frightened creature that can’t shoot back.”

11. “Coyote hunting can’t be justified on the basis of the damage they do. Shooting coyotes is really just fun, a man with a high-powered rifle trying to see if he can kill a frightened creature that can’t shoot back.”

Ted Kooser Quote: “Just as a dancer, turning and turning, may fill the dusty light with the soft swirl of her flying skirts, our weeping willow – now old and broken, creaking in the breeze – turns slowly, slowly in the winter sun, sweeping the rusty roof of the barn with the pale blue lacework of her shadow.”

12. “Just as a dancer, turning and turning, may fill the dusty light with the soft swirl of her flying skirts, our weeping willow – now old and broken, creaking in the breeze – turns slowly, slowly in the winter sun, sweeping the rusty roof of the barn with the pale blue lacework of her shadow.”

Ted Kooser Quote: “There are mornings when everything brims with promise, even my empty cup.”

13. “There are mornings when everything brims with promise, even my empty cup.”

Ted Kooser Quote: “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 the process of writing.”

14. “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 the process of writing.”

Ted Kooser Quote: “Turtle has just one plan at a time, and every cell buys into it.”

15. “Turtle has just one plan at a time, and every cell buys into it.”

Ted Kooser Quote: “It is all around us, free, this wonderful life: clear jingle of tire chains, the laughter of ice that breaks under our boots. Each hour’s a gift to those who take it up.”

16. “It is all around us, free, this wonderful life: clear jingle of tire chains, the laughter of ice that breaks under our boots. Each hour’s a gift to those who take it up.”

Ted Kooser Quote: “I farm a little plot of things to say, with not much frontage on the busy road.”

17. “I farm a little plot of things to say, with not much frontage on the busy road.”

Ted Kooser Quote: “I now know that I was in the presence of the only angels we are ever likely to make the acquaintance of: teachers blessed with the love of small people who are trying to find their place in the world.”

18. “I now know that I was in the presence of the only angels we are ever likely to make the acquaintance of: teachers blessed with the love of small people who are trying to find their place in the world.”

Ted Kooser Quote: “Wisdom is easy to carry but difficult to load.”

19. “Wisdom is easy to carry but difficult to load.”

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