The Wheeling Year Quotes

“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, The Wheeling Year: A Poet's Field Book

“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, The Wheeling Year: A Poet's Field Book

“This night is a cold, deep lake, and I am lying on its bottom, surprised to be able to breathe. The bellied sail of the moon has been wafted out of sight, but thousands of starlights sparkle up there on the surface, just bright enough that I can hold up the fish of my fingers and watch them dart this way and that, hungrily feeding on the darkness. Who could be happier to be alive than I? - Ted Kooser, from “April,” The Wheeling Year: A Poet’s Field Book (University of Nebraska Press, 2014)”
― Ted Kooser, The Wheeling Year: A Poet's Field Book

“A man-made satellite slowly pencils a line through one long passage in the lore of stars, but for those who know the constellation’s stories, nothing can alter them.”
― Ted Kooser, The Wheeling Year: A Poet's Field Book