"Poetry, which is written while no one is……" — Kenneth Koch
"Poetry, which is written while no one is looking, is meant to be looked at for all time."
—
Kenneth Koch
★
★
★
★
★
0.0 avg (0 ratings)
33 Quotes by Kenneth Koch
Kenneth Koch has 33 quotes on this site.
A few more worth reading:
-
The subject matter of the stories on the surface... there seem to be a number of stories about travel.
-
I'm a writer who likes to be influenced.
-
I thought, 'There are a lot of poets who have the courage to look into the abyss, but there are…
-
When you finish a poem, it clicks shut like the top of a jewel box, but prose is endless. I…
-
I've had trouble with criticism, I guess. It's hard to know what role criticism plays in either encouraging poets or…
-
Summer in the trees! “It is time to strangle several bad poets.
-
I got married, other people went off. We had sort of another public-we were our entire readership for many years,…
-
Politics is there the way men and women are there, the way the Atlantic Ocean is there. Sometimes I've written…
-
It seems everything is so full of possibilities one can hardly take it all in.
-
I don't think the nature of my poetry is satirical or even ironic, I think it's essentially lyrical but again…
-
It's a well known thing that ordinary perceptions can have a strange aspect when one is travelling.
-
I love painting and music, of course. I don't know nearly as much about them as I know about poetry.…
See all 33 quotes by Kenneth Koch »
More All Quotes
This quote is filed under All Quotes,
one of 128,558 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:
-
Total loyalty is possible only when fidelity is emptied of all concrete content, from which changes of mind might naturally…
— Hannah Arendt
-
No cause is left but the most ancient of all, the one, in fact, that from the beginning of our…
— Hannah Arendt
-
The ultimate end of human acts is eudaimonia, happiness in the sense of living well, which all men desire; all…
— Hannah Arendt
-
The new always happens against the overwhelming odds of statistical laws and their probability, which for all practical, everyday purposes…
— Hannah Arendt
-
Where all are guilty, no one is; confessions of collective guilt are the best possible safeguard against the discovery of…
— Hannah Arendt
-
We have almost succeeded in leveling all human activities to the common denominator of securing the necessities of life and…
— Hannah Arendt
-
I keep my friends as misers do their treasure, because, of all the things granted us by wisdom, none is…
— Pietro Aretino
-
We must all make peace so that we can all live in peace.
— Jean-Bertrand Aristide
-
The spirit of Ubuntu, that once led Haiti to emerge as the first independent black nation in 1804, helped Venezuela,…
— Jean-Bertrand Aristide
-
As we all know, many people remain buried under tons of rubble and debris, waiting to be rescued. When we…
— Jean-Bertrand Aristide
-
Wise people, even though all laws were abolished, would still lead the same life.
— Aristophanes
-
A friend to all is a friend to none.
— Aristotle
See all 128,558 All Quotes »