I thought, 'There are a lot of poets who have the courage to look into the abyss, but there are very few who have the courage to look happiness in the face and write about it,' which is what I… — Kenneth Koch Copy Share Image
The subject matter of the stories on the surface... there seem to be a number of stories about travel. — Kenneth Koch Copy Share Image
When you finish a poem, it clicks shut like the top of a jewel box, but prose is endless. I haven't experienced an awful… — Kenneth Koch Copy Share Image
It's a well known thing that ordinary perceptions can have a strange aspect when one is travelling. — Kenneth Koch Copy Share Image
“Summer in the trees! “It is time to strangle several bad poets.” / The yellow hobbyhorse rocks to and fro, and from the chimney… — Kenneth Koch Copy Share Image
If you want to know how much I love and care for you, count the waves. — Kenneth Koch Copy Share Image
I was excited by what my painter friends were doing, and they seemed to be interested in our poetry too, and that was a… — Kenneth Koch Copy Share Image
Picasso said once when being interviewed that one should not be one's own connoisseur. — Kenneth Koch Copy Share Image
I love painting and music, of course. I don't know nearly as much about them as I know about poetry. I've certainly been influenced… — Kenneth Koch Copy Share Image
“I wasn’t ready For you. I understood nothing Seemingly except my feelings You were whirling In your life I was keeping Everything in my… — Kenneth Koch Copy Share Image
I don't think the nature of my poetry is satirical or even ironic, I think it's essentially lyrical but again I don't know if… — Kenneth Koch Copy Share Image
