Kenneth Koch Quotes - Page 2

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

  Kenneth Koch

  Feelings, I've Changed, Deals

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• I 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.

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  Mother, Cincinnati Ohio, Literature

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• 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

  Years, People, Married

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

  Kenneth Koch

  Travel, Numbers, Stories

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• 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.

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  Play, People, Criticism

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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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• I wonder if I ever thought of an ideal reader... I guess when I was in my 20s and in New York and maybe even in my early 30s, I would write for my wife Janice... mainly for my poet friends and my wife, who was very smart about poetry.

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  New York, Smart, Writing

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

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  Three, Generations, Four

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

  Kenneth Koch

  Cheer, Reviews, Seems

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• 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.

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  Writing, Interesting, Details

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