Kenneth Koch Quotes

• You aren't just the age you are. You are all the ages you ever have been!

  Kenneth Koch

  Age, Has Beens

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• If you want to know how much I love and care for you, count the waves.

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  Love, Care, Want

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• I thought, 'There are a lot of poets who have the courage to look into the abyss, but there are very few who have the courage to look happiness in the face and write about it,' which is what I wanted to be able to do.

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  Writing, Looks, Able

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• I'm a writer who likes to be influenced.

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  Le gusta

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• When you get an idea, go and write. Don't waste it in conversation.

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  Writing, Ideas, Waste

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• Un día los Sustantivos estaban agrupados en la calle.
  Pasó un Adjetivo, con su oscura belleza.
  Los Sustantivos fueron golpeados, movidos, cambiados.
  Al día siguiente llegó un Verbo y creó la Frase.

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  Dark, Next Day, One Day

  Kenneth Koch (2012). “On the Great Atlantic Rainway: Selected Poems 1950-1988”, p.75, Knopf

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• Poetry is a deliberate attempt to make language suggestive and imprecise.

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  Language, Poetry Is, Deliberate

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• Poetry, which is written while no one is looking, is meant to be looked at for all time.

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  All Time, Written, Meant To Be

  Kenneth Koch (2012). “The Collected Poems of Kenneth Koch”, p.542, Knopf

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

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  Possibility, Seems

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• Picasso said once when being interviewed that one should not be one's own connoisseur.

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  Should, Said, Connoisseur

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• Summer in the trees! “It is time to strangle several bad poets.

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  Summer, Tree, Poet

  Kenneth Koch (2012). “On the Great Atlantic Rainway: Selected Poems 1950-1988”, p.71, Knopf

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• All poetry comes from repetition.

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  Repetición

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• This rose became a bandanna, which became a house, which became infused with all passion, which became a hideaway, which became yes I would like to have dinner, which became hands, which became lands, shores, beaches, natives on the stones, staring and wild beasts in the trees, chasing the hats of lost hunters, and all this deserves a tone.

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  Beach, Passion, Hands

  Kenneth Koch (1982). “Days and nights”, Random House (NY)

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• 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!

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  Jewels, Awful, Boxes

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• 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.

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  Thinking, Ironic, Lyrical

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

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  Journey, Perception, Ordinary

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• It takes a long time to publish a book.

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  Book, Long, Long Time

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• 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.

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  Amor, paz, guerra

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

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  Political, Littles, Defined

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• You can't be too influenced by a great poet. You simply have to live through it.

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  Poet, Great Poet

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

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  New York, Poetic, Poet

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• 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.

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  Mean, Identity, Looks

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• 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.

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  Mean, Hype, Deception

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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.

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  Attitude, Fall, Maturity

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

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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.

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  Ocean, Mean, Men

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