"As for political poetry, as it's usually defined,……" — Kenneth Koch
"As for political poetry, as it's usually defined, it seems there's very little good political poetry."
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Kenneth Koch
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33 Quotes by Kenneth Koch
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The subject matter of the stories on the surface... there seem to be a number of stories about travel.
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I'm a writer who likes to be influenced.
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I thought, 'There are a lot of poets who have the courage to look into the abyss, but there are…
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When you finish a poem, it clicks shut like the top of a jewel box, but prose is endless. I…
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Poetry, which is written while no one is looking, is meant to be looked at for all time.
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I've had trouble with criticism, I guess. It's hard to know what role criticism plays in either encouraging poets or…
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Summer in the trees! “It is time to strangle several bad poets.
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I got married, other people went off. We had sort of another public-we were our entire readership for many years,…
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Politics is there the way men and women are there, the way the Atlantic Ocean is there. Sometimes I've written…
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It seems everything is so full of possibilities one can hardly take it all in.
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I don't think the nature of my poetry is satirical or even ironic, I think it's essentially lyrical but again…
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It's a well known thing that ordinary perceptions can have a strange aspect when one is travelling.
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More Defined Quotes
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one of 1,096 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:
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Accomplishment is socially judged by ill defined criteria so that one has to rely on others to find out how…
— Albert Bandura
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Your modern teenager is not about to listen to advice from an old person, defined as a person who remembers…
— Dave Barry
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It was Public Art, defined as art that is purchased by experts who are not spending their own personal money.
— Dave Barry
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I've always defined myself not as a cartoonist , but as an entrepreneur. That was true before I tried cartooning.…
— Scott Adams
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Man is defined as a human being and a woman as a female - whenever she behaves as a human…
— Simone de Beauvoir
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The mental body, like the astral, varies much in different people; it is composed of coarser or of finer matter,…
— Annie Besant
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In relativity, movement is continuous, causally determinate and well defined, while in quantum mechanics it is discontinuous, not causally determinate…
— David Bohm
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Unhappiness is best defined as the difference between our talents and our expectations.
— Edward de Bono
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The skirmishes in the occupied land are part of the war of destiny. The outcome of hundreds of years of…
— Mahmoud Ahmadinejad
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Why should a great and powerful nation like the United States allow its relationship with more than a billion Muslims…
— John O. Brennan
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Punk was defined by an attitude rather than a musical style.
— David Byrne
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The human race is a zone of living things that should be defined by tracing its confines.
— Italo Calvino
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