Kenneth Koch's Profile
Brief about Kenneth Koch: By info that we know Kenneth Koch was born at 1925-02-27. And also Kenneth Koch is American Poet.
Some Kenneth Koch's quotes. Goto "Kenneth Koch's quotation" section for more.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.
Tags: Good, Mean, TrueI certainly have the feeling that I'm the same person even though I've changed a great deal.
Tags: Feeling, Great, ThoughAs for political poetry, as it's usually defined, it seems there's very little good political poetry.
Tags: Good, Poetry, PoliticalI'm a writer who likes to be influenced.
Tags: Influenced, Likes, WriterIt seems everything is so full of possibilities one can hardly take it all in.
Tags: Full, Hardly, SeemsIt's a well known thing that ordinary perceptions can have a strange aspect when one is travelling.
Tags: Known, Ordinary, StrangeIt's enormously cheering to get a good review by someone who seems to understand your work.
Tags: Good, Someone, WorkMaybe there are three or four really good poets in a generation.
Tags: Generation, Good, ThreePicasso said once when being interviewed that one should not be one's own connoisseur.
Tags: Once, Picasso, SaidThe subject matter of the stories on the surface... there seem to be a number of stories about travel.
Tags: Matter, Number, TravelWhen 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!
Tags: Finish, Shut, TopAs I look over my work, I mean every time I look over my early work, I see, yes, I could do that then and then I could do that and that... That may be the hardest thing for a writer, at least for a poet, to tell what the identity of his work is.
Tags: Mean, Time, WorkI 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.
Tags: Another, Married, OffI 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.
Tags: Love, Music, PeaceI 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.
Tags: Born, Family, MotherI 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.
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