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Letter "K" » Kenneth Koch Quotes
«Also, I liked John Cage's music. I liked it for its craziness, the use of silence, the boldness-anything to get me away from writing about... I don't know what academic poets write about.»
Author: Kenneth Koch
«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.»
Author: Kenneth Koch
«My poetry changed when I was 15 years old. One of my uncles, Leo, had written poetry when he was a young man, and he took me down to the family business and he opened a safe and showed me some poems he'd written when he was 19. He also gave me a book of the collected poems of Shelley. And I still have that book.»
Author: Kenneth Koch
«It takes a long time to publish a book.»
Author: Kenneth Koch
«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.»
Author: Kenneth Koch
«I certainly think it's worth making an effort to write about certain important things, as I made an effort to write about the war.»
Author: Kenneth Koch
«Certainly, it seems true enough that there's a good deal of irony in the world... I mean, if you live in a world full of politicians and advertising, there's obviously a lot of deception.»
Author: Kenneth Koch
«I mean, there are excesses all over the place. People are always saying what are the different schools of American poetry.»
Author: Kenneth Koch
«It's enormously cheering to get a good review by someone who seems to understand your work.»
Author: Kenneth Koch
«I think my poetry was very influenced-it seems almost dumb to say it-but it was very influenced by Shakespeare. Very early on I read his plays... and, I don't know, I started speaking in blank verse at a rather early age.»
Author: Kenneth Koch
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