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Kenneth Koch Quotes: I never thought of myself as a New York poet or as an American poet.
         

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


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You aren't just the age you are. You are all the ages you ever have been!

You aren't just the age you are. You are all the ages you ever have been!



As for political poetry, as it's usually defined, it seems there's very little good political poetry.

As for political poetry, as it's usually defined, it seems there's very little good political poetry.



I'm a writer who likes to be influenced.

I'm a writer who likes to be influenced.



Picasso said once when being interviewed that one should not be one's own connoisseur.

Picasso said once when being interviewed that one should not be one's own connoisseur.



Summer in the trees! “It is time to strangle several bad poets.

Summer in the trees! “It is time to strangle several bad poets.



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!

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!



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.

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.



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.

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.



Poetry is a deliberate attempt to make language suggestive and imprecise.

Poetry is a deliberate attempt to make language suggestive and imprecise.



One trouble with a kind of falsely therapeutic and always reassuring attitude that it is easy to fall into with old people, is the tendency to be satisfied with too little.

One trouble with a kind of falsely therapeutic and always reassuring attitude that it is easy to fall into with old people, is the tendency to be satisfied with too little.





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I’ve had a lot of lieutenants over the years, and all the good ones were sick, sick individuals. You might be the best one yet.

I’ve had a lot of lieutenants over the years, and all the good ones were sick, sick individuals. You might be the best one yet.



Will ye be wantin’ this now, madam?”“Yes, please, ” she whispered. She wanted to engrave the sight of him thus, about to make love to her, in her mind.

Will ye be wantin’ this now, madam?”“Yes, please, ” she whispered. She wanted to engrave the sight of him thus, about to make love to her, in her mind.



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I AM NOT UR BESTFRND BUT I'M UR GOODFRND..



I was left to painstakingly deal with the aftermath of my avoidance later in life, in therapy or through the lyrics of my songs.

I was left to painstakingly deal with the aftermath of my avoidance later in life, in therapy or through the lyrics of my songs.



Once when I was golfing in Georgia, I hooked the ball into the swamp. I went in after it and found an alligator wearing a shirt with a picture of a little golfer on it.

Once when I was golfing in Georgia, I hooked the ball into the swamp. I went in after it and found an alligator wearing a shirt with a picture of a little golfer on it.



I was a poet animated by philosophy, not a philosopher with poetic faculties.

I was a poet animated by philosophy, not a philosopher with poetic faculties.



Since in reality there is nothing to which growth is relative save more growth, there is nothing to which education is subordinate save more education.‎

Since in reality there is nothing to which growth is relative save more growth, there is nothing to which education is subordinate save more education.‎



Every work of art is the child of its time, often it is the mother of our emotions.

Every work of art is the child of its time, often it is the mother of our emotions.




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