Attitude Quote by Kenneth Koch

The subject matter of the stories on the surface... there seem to be a number of stories about travel.

— Kenneth Koch

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

It's a well known thing that ordinary perceptions can have a strange aspect when one is travelling.

— Kenneth Koch

“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

If you want to know how much I love and care for you, count the waves.

— Kenneth Koch

“Lies belong in poems”

— Kenneth Koch

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

Picasso said once when being interviewed that one should not be one's own connoisseur.

— Kenneth Koch

It takes a long time to publish a book.

— Kenneth Koch

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

“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

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