Kenneth Koch Quotes

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• Some of the French surrealists at the beginning of the war had come over to New York and they brought out this magazine. It was… Beginning
• As I look over my work, I mean every time I look over my early work, I see, yes, I could do that then and… Early
• Maybe there are three or four really good poets in a generation. Four
• I was excited by what my painter friends were doing, and they seemed to be interested in our poetry too, and that was a wonderful… Excited
• I wonder if I ever thought of an ideal reader... I guess when I was in my 20s and in New York and maybe even… Early
• Once I start writing about something, it goes off rather fast, and sometimes details which might be interesting such as what the room looked like… Details
• It takes a long time to publish a book. Book
• As for political poetry, as it's usually defined, it seems there's very little good political poetry. Defined
• I certainly have the feeling that I'm the same person even though I've changed a great deal. Changed
• I was influenced by surrealist poetry and painting as were thousands of other people, and it seems to me to have become a part of… Influenced
• It's enormously cheering to get a good review by someone who seems to understand your work. Cheering
• Picasso said once when being interviewed that one should not be one's own connoisseur. Connoisseur
• I chopped down the house that you had been saving to live in next summer. I am sorry, but it was morning, and I had… Beams

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