"I don't think the nature of my poetry……" — 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 it's my position to say what my poetry is like."
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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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It's a well known thing that ordinary perceptions can have a strange aspect when one is travelling.
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I love painting and music, of course. I don't know nearly as much about them as I know about poetry.…
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