Kenneth Koch Quotes


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. Kenneth Koch Beginning 79
I wonder if I ever thought of an ideal reader... I guess when I was in my 20s and in New York and maybe even in my early 30s, I would write for my wife Janice... mainly for my poet friends and my wife, who was very smart about poetry. Kenneth Koch Poetry 78
As I look over my work, I mean every time I look over my early work, I see, yes, I could do that then and then I could do that and that... That may be the hardest thing for a writer, at least for a poet, to tell what the identity of his work is. Kenneth Koch Early 77
Once I start writing about something, it goes off rather fast, and sometimes details which might be interesting such as what the room looked like or what somebody said that was not exactly on the same subject tend to get lost. Kenneth Koch Details 70
I got married, other people went off. We had sort of another public-we were our entire readership for many years, and we were very excited by each other. Kenneth Koch Another 69
The subject matter of the stories on the surface... there seem to be a number of stories about travel. Kenneth Koch Matter 61
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 Poetry 59
I never thought of myself as a New York poet or as an American poet. Kenneth Koch American 58
It seems everything is so full of possibilities one can hardly take it all in. Kenneth Koch Hardly 57
I was excited by what my painter friends were doing, and they seemed to be interested in our poetry too, and that was a wonderful little, fizzy sort of world. Kenneth Koch Poetry 53
It takes a long time to publish a book. Kenneth Koch Book 51
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 Politics 49
As for political poetry, as it's usually defined, it seems there's very little good political poetry. Kenneth Koch Poetry 46
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 Poetry 42
Maybe there are three or four really good poets in a generation. Kenneth Koch Four 30

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