Kenneth Koch Quotes

Kenneth Koch
American Poet
Born: Feb 27, 1925
Died: Jul 6, 2002
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Related authors: Edgar Allan Poe Emily Dickinson Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Maya Angelou Ralph Waldo Emerson Robert Frost T. S. Eliot Walt Whitman
Picasso said once when being interviewed that one should not be one's own connoisseur. Kenneth Koch
Own Once Picasso Said Being Should Connoisseur
I've had trouble with criticism, I guess. It's hard to know what role criticism plays in either encouraging poets or in getting other people to read them. Kenneth Koch
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It's enormously cheering to get a good review by someone who seems to understand your work. Kenneth Koch
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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 about politics specifically, I mean about politics as it's understood on television and in newspapers. Kenneth Koch
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As for political poetry, as it's usually defined, it seems there's very little good political poetry. Kenneth Koch
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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. I've certainly been influenced by fiction. I was overwhelmed by War and Peace when I read it, and I didn't read it until I was in my late 20s. Kenneth Koch
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Maybe there are three or four really good poets in a generation. Kenneth Koch
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It seems everything is so full of possibilities one can hardly take it all in. Kenneth Koch
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I was influenced by surrealist poetry and painting as were thousands of other people, and it seems to me to have become a part of the way I write, but it's not. Kenneth Koch
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When you finish a poem, it clicks shut like the top of a jewel box, but prose is endless. I haven't experienced an awful lot of clicking shut! Kenneth Koch
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I'm a writer who likes to be influenced. Kenneth Koch
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