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Kenneth Koch

It takes a long time to publish a book.

– Kenneth Koch

Kenneth Koch

I’m a writer who likes to be influenced.

– Kenneth Koch

Kenneth Koch

It’s a well known thing that ordinary perceptions can have a strange aspect when one is travelling.

– Kenneth Koch

Kenneth Koch

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

Kenneth Koch

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

Kenneth Koch

It seems everything is so full of possibilities one can hardly take it all in.

– Kenneth Koch

Kenneth Koch

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

– Kenneth Koch

Kenneth Koch

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

Kenneth Koch

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

– Kenneth Koch

Kenneth Koch

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

Kenneth Koch

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

– Kenneth Koch

Kenneth Koch

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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