"Some of the French surrealists at the beginning……" — Kenneth Koch
"Some of the French surrealists at the beginning of the war had come over to New York and they brought out this magazine. It was a big, glossy magazine full of surrealist things."
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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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No cause is left but the most ancient of all, the one, in fact, that from the beginning of our…
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Our tradition of political thought had its definite beginning in the teachings of Plato and Aristotle. I believe it came…
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The beginning of reform is not so much to equalize property as to train the noble sort of natures not…
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But human beings fall easily into despair, and from the very beginning we invented stories that enabled us to place…
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When the British came to Ibo land, for instance, at the beginning of the 20th century, and defeated the men…
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The beginning of Canadian cultural nationalism was not 'Am I really that oppressed?' but 'Am I really that boring?'
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Beauty is about perception, not about make-up. I think the beginning of all beauty is knowing and liking oneself. You…
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The confession of evil works is the first beginning of good works.
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It is not death that a man should fear, but he should fear never beginning to live.
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Begin - to begin is half the work, let half still remain; again begin this, and thou wilt have finished.
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India saw from the beginning, and, even in her ages of reason and her age of increasing ignorance, she never…
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