Kenneth Koch

Lies belong in poems ↗

— Kenneth Koch

#dreams

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 certainly have the feeling that I'm the same person even though I've changed a great deal. ↗

— Kenneth Koch

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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, and we were very excited by each other. ↗

— Kenneth Koch

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I never thought of myself as a New York poet or as an American poet. ↗

— Kenneth Koch

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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

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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

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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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I'm a writer who likes to be influenced. ↗

— Kenneth Koch

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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 in getting other people to read them. ↗

— Kenneth Koch

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