Quotes by : Ted Kooser

a storm that walked on legs of lightning,dragging its shaggy belly over the fields.

Mother (fragment)...You asked me if I would be sad when it happenedand I am sad. But the iris I moved....

Valentine's Day is the poet's holiday.

a happy birthdaythis evening, I sat by an open windowand read till the light was gone and the bookwas....

MOTHER – By Ted KooserMid April already, and the wild plumsbloom at the roadside, a lacy whiteagainst....

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

She'd had little patience with darkness, and her heartheld only a measure of shadow. I touchedthe warm....