Author: Kenneth Koch

Quotes

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.

- Kenneth Koch

Some of the French surrealists at the beginning of the war had come over to New York and they brought out this magazine. It was a big, glossy magazine full of surrealist things.

Some of the French surrealists at the beginning of the war had come over to New York and they brought out this magazine. It was a big, glossy magazine full of surrealist things.

- Kenneth Koch

It takes a long time to publish a book.

It takes a long time to publish a book.

- Kenneth Koch

Maybe there are three or four really good poets in a generation.

Maybe there are three or four really good poets in a generation.

- Kenneth Koch

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

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

- Kenneth Koch

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

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

- Kenneth Koch

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.

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

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.

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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