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Kenneth Koch

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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.


— Kenneth Koch


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It takes a long time to publish a book.


— Kenneth Koch


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


— Kenneth Koch


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


— Kenneth Koch


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


— Kenneth Koch


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


— Kenneth Koch


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Some of the French surrealists at the beginning of the war had come over to New York and they brought out this magazine. It was a big, glossy magazine full of surrealist things.


— Kenneth Koch


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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


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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!


— Kenneth Koch


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


— Kenneth Koch


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About Kenneth Koch






Did you know about Kenneth Koch?

He was inducted into the American Academy of Arts and Letters in 1996. Koch was labeled by some as just a comedic poet. After his service he attended Harvard University where he met future New York School poet John Ashbery.

Kenneth Koch (27 February 1925 – 6 July 2002) was an American poet playwright and professor active from the 1950s until his death at age 77. He was a prominent poet of the New York School of poetry a loose group of poets including Frank O'Hara and John Ashbery that eschewed contemporary introspective poetry in favor of an exuberant cosmopolitan style that drew major inspiration from travel painting and music.

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