"I thought, 'There are a lot of poets……" — Kenneth Koch
"I thought, 'There are a lot of poets who have the courage to look into the abyss, but there are very few who have the courage to look happiness in the face and write about it,' which is what I wanted to be able to do."
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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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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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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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