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Poetry Quotes by Kenneth Koch
- Poetry, which is written while no one is looking, is meant to be looked at for all time.
- 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 it's…
- 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 by…
- 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…
- 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…
- As for political poetry, as it's usually defined, it seems there's very little good political poetry.
- 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…
More Poetry Quotes
- Poetry is finer and more philosophical than history; for poetry expresses the universal, and history only the particular. — Aristotle
- Hence poetry is something more philosophic and of graver import than history, since its statements are rather of the nature of universals,… — Aristotle
- I guess I wanted to leave America for awhile. It wasn't that I wanted to become an expatriate, or just never come… — Paul Auster
- I started out in life as a poet; I was only writing poetry all through my 20s. It wasn't until I was… — Paul Auster
- I was always interested in French poetry sort of as a sideline to my own work, I was translating contemporary French poets.… — Paul Auster
- If you read quickly to get through a poem to what it means, you have missed the body of the poem. — M H Abrams
- Poetry is simply the most beautiful, impressive, and widely effective mode of saying things. — Matthew Arnold
- I like poems you can tack all over with a hammer and there are no hollow places. — John Ashbery