Writing Quotes by Ted Kooser

Ted Kooser

For a while the creative writing community sort of sprung out of places like Iowa and Syracuse. The graduates sort of went out, and they would found creative writing departments in the little colleges where they went, and then some of those would found other ones. I mean every college has got a creative writing department, so where are the jobs coming from? There are not any jobs out there.

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Ted Kooser

I try to be realistic with students. And say that there’s a good chance that they’re not going to get a creative writing teaching job, that there aren’t enough jobs to go around and the university faculties are cutting back on staff and that they may have to get some other kind of work. None of them wants to hear that, but it is true and I think I’m a good example for them of somebody who took the other route.

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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 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 to me personally; but I think that’s the way it really ought to be. I think it’s really a rare thing to like everything that somebody has written.

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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 the process of writing.

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Ted Kooser

Wallace Stevens had more time to write as an insurance agent. He was a bond lawyer and I know that insurance company lawyers don’t have to do nearly as much as we had to do. We were out more in the production area. I’m not condemning Stevens for having had a better job than I did, but that’s one of the many places where I differ from him.

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Writing Quotes by 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 the process of writing.

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