Quotes by Kenneth Koch

Kenneth Koch

All poetry comes from repetition.

Repetition

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.

Cages

Silence

Writing

As for political poetry, as it’s usually defined, it seems there’s very little good political poetry.

Defined

Littles

Political

As 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.

Identity

Looks

Mean

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.

Deception

Hype

Mean

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

Deals

Feelings

I've Changed

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.

Ironic

Lyrical

Thinking

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.

Married

People

Years

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.

Love

Peace

War

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

New York

Poet

Poetic

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Age

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Awful

Beach

Book

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Cages

Care

Cheer

Cincinnati Ohio

Connoisseur

Criticism

Dark

Deals

Deception

Defined

Deliberate

Details

Fall

Feelings

Four

Generations

Great Poet

Hands

Has Beens

Hype

I've Changed

Ideas

Identity

Interesting

Ironic

Jewels

Journey

Language

Likes

Literature

Littles

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Looks

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Quotes by Kenneth Koch

Kenneth Koch

All poetry comes from repetition.

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.

As for political poetry, as it’s usually defined, it seems there’s very little good political poetry.

As 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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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