Inspirational Quotes, Motivational Sayings, and Wise Words for Daily Inspiration

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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 support myself as a writer, and I knew I would have to have some sort of work, and it didn't make a whole lot of difference to me what it was. I mean, I could have been a paper hanger or something for that matter.

Ted Kooser's Popular Quotes

In my work, I really try to look at ordinary things quite closely to see if there isn't a little bit of something special about them. I'm trying to m…

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Sometimes you sense how faithfully your life is delivered, even though you can't read the address.

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Valentine's Day is the poet's holiday.

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

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

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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.

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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 blad…

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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 t…

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

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