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Kenneth Koch quotes

American Poet February 27, 1925 – July 6, 2002

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I wasn’t ready For you. I understood nothing Seemingly except my feelings You were whirling In your life I was keeping Everything in my head "To Marina Kenneth Koch
Kenneth Koch quote: "Maybe poetry took the life out of both of them, Idea and..."
Maybe poetry took the life out of both of them, Idea and friendship. Kenneth Koch
I love you as a sheriff searches for a walnut / That will solve a murder case unsolved for years / Because the murderer left it in the snow beside a window / Through which he saw her head, connecting with / Her shoulders by a neck, and laid a red /Roof in her heart. For this we lived a thousand years; / For this we love, and we live because we love, we are not /Inside a bottle, thank goodness! ----- from "To You Kenneth Koch
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
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
Summer in the trees! “It is time to strangle several bad poets.” / The yellow hobbyhorse rocks to and fro, and from the chimney / Drops the Strangler! The white and pink roses are slightly agitated by the struggle, / But afterwards beside the dead “poet” they cuddle up comfortingly against their vase. They are safer now, no one will compare them to the sea. / Here on the railroad train, one more time, is the Strangler. / He is going to get that one there, who is on his way to a poetry... Kenneth Koch
I was born in Cincinnati, Ohio. My family was not nationally known as being a literary family, though my mother and my mother's side of the family in general were interested in literature. 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. Kenneth Koch
Kenneth Koch quote: "I certainly have the feeling that I'm the same person even..."
I certainly have the feeling that I'm the same person even though I've changed a great deal. Kenneth Koch
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
Kenneth Koch quote: "It's a well known thing that ordinary perceptions can have a..."
It's a well known thing that ordinary perceptions can have a strange aspect when one is travelling. Kenneth Koch
Kenneth Koch quote: "The subject matter of the stories on the surface... there seem..."
The subject matter of the stories on the surface... there seem to be a number of stories about travel. Kenneth Koch
Kenneth Koch quote: "It's enormously cheering to get a good review by someone who..."
It's enormously cheering to get a good review by someone who seems to understand your work. 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. Kenneth Koch
Kenneth Koch quote: "As for political poetry, as it's usually defined, it seems..."
As for political poetry, as it's usually defined, it seems there's very little good political poetry. Kenneth Koch

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