I'm a writer who likes to be influenced. Kenneth Koch More Quotes by Kenneth Koch More Quotes From Kenneth Koch You aren't just the age you are. You are all the ages you ever have been! Kenneth Koch has-beensage I thought, 'There are a lot of poets who have the courage to look into the abyss, but there are very few who have the courage to look happiness in the face and write about it,' which is what I wanted to be able to do. Kenneth Koch ablewritinglooks Summer in the trees! “It is time to strangle several bad poets. Kenneth Koch poetsummertree One day the Nouns were clustered in the street. Kenneth Koch next-dayone-daydark Poetry is a deliberate attempt to make language suggestive and imprecise. Kenneth Koch deliberatelanguagepoetry-is 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. Kenneth Koch hypedeceptionmean 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 lovewarpeace I never thought of myself as a New York poet or as an American poet. Kenneth Koch poeticpoetnew-york If you want to know how much I love and care for you, count the waves. Kenneth Koch carewantlove 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 detailswritinginteresting It's a well known thing that ordinary perceptions can have a strange aspect when one is travelling. Kenneth Koch perceptionjourneyordinary I don't think the nature of my poetry is satirical or even ironic, I think it's essentially lyrical but again I don't know if it's my position to say what my poetry is like. Kenneth Koch lyricalironicthinking It seems everything is so full of possibilities one can hardly take it all in. Kenneth Koch possibilityseems 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 oceanmenmean It's enormously cheering to get a good review by someone who seems to understand your work. Kenneth Koch reviewscheerseems When you get an idea, go and write. Don't waste it in conversation. Kenneth Koch wastewritingideas Maybe there are three or four really good poets in a generation. Kenneth Koch generationsfourthree 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! Kenneth Koch boxesawfuljewels The subject matter of the stories on the surface... there seem to be a number of stories about travel. Kenneth Koch storiesnumberstravel All poetry comes from repetition. Kenneth Koch repetition
