Kenneth Koch Quotes - Page 2

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• It's enormously cheering to get a good review by someone who seems to understand your work.

  Kenneth Koch

  Cheer, Reviews, Seems

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• 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

  New York, Smart, Writing

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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

  Feelings, I've Changed, Deals

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• 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.

  Kenneth Koch

  Attitude, Fall, Maturity

  Kenneth Koch (1978). “I Never Told Anybody: Teaching Poetry Writing in a Nursing Home”, Random House Incorporated

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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

  Mother, Cincinnati Ohio, Literature

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• 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.

  Kenneth Koch

  Writing, Silence, Cages

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• 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

  Ocean, Mean, Men

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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

  Play, People, Criticism

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• The subject matter of the stories on the surface... there seem to be a number of stories about travel.

  Kenneth Koch

  Travel, Numbers, Stories

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• 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

  Writing, Interesting, Details

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