Braided Creek Quotes

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

“Treasure what you find
already in your pocket, friend.”
― Ted Kooser, Braided Creek

“What is it the wind has lost that she keeps looking for under each leaf?”
― Jim Harrison, Braided Creek: A Conversation in Poetry

“The blind man navigates
by stars behind the daylight.”
― Ted Kooser, Braided Creek

“Sometimes all it takes
to be happy
is a dime on the sidewalk.”
― Ted Kooser, Braided Creek

“I prefer the skyline
of a shelf of books.”
― Ted Kooser, Braided Creek

“Dust too
is drawn on wings
to light.”
― Ted Kooser, Braided Creek

“I feel
the bear’s heart
in her footprints.”
― Ted Kooser, Braided Creek

“I prefer the skyline
of a shelf of books.”
― Jim Harrison, Braided Creek

“To have reverence for life
you must have reverence for death.
The dogs we love are not taken from us
but leave when summoned by the gods.”
― Jim Harrison, Braided Creek: A Conversation in Poetry: Expanded Anniversary Edition

“Stars from horizon to horizon.
A whole half universe
just to light the path.”
― Ted Kooser, Braided Creek

“Treasure what you find already in your pocket, friend.”
― Jim Harrison, Braided Creek: A Conversation in Poetry

“Some nights are three nights long,
some days a mere noon hour, then whistled
back to work, the heart dredging sludge.”
― Jim Harrison, Braided Creek

“The blind man navigates
by stars behind the daylight.”
― Ted Kooserser , Braided Creek

“Flecks of foam
on the fountain’s lips
as it reads aloud from
the scripture of water.”
― Ted Kooser, Braided Creek

“The butterfly
jots a note on the wind
to remind itself of something.”
― Ted Kooser, Braided Creek

“The patience of the spider’s web
is not disturbed by dew.”
― Ted Kooser, Braided Creek

“The imagination’s kisses
are a cloud of butterflies.”
― Ted Kooser, Braided Creek

“Elaborate is the courtliness
of the imagination, on one sore knee
before beauty.”
― Jim Harrison, Braided Creek