#be

People get tired of you. So they decided to throw me out. And so help me God, as the numbers were coming in, I said to myself, 'I'm free at last.' ↗

— Ed Koch

#decided #free #get #god #help

The best way to lose weight is to close your mouth - something very difficult for a politician. Or watch your food - just watch it, don't eat it. ↗

— Ed Koch

#best way #close #difficult #eat #food

You punch me, I punch back. I do not believe it's good for one's self-respect to be a punching bag. ↗

— Ed Koch

#bag #believe #good #i #i do

The best way to lose weight is to close your mouth - something very difficult for a politician. Or watch your food - just watch it, don't eat it. ↗

— Edward Koch

#best #best way #close #difficult #eat

I don't think of myself as being disabled, or able-bodied. ↗

— Natalie du Toit

#disabled #i #myself #think

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. ↗

— Kenneth Koch

#been #certainly #course #fiction #i

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. ↗

— Kenneth Koch

#born #cincinnati #family #general #i

I was influenced by surrealist poetry and painting as were thousands of other people, and it seems to me to have become a part of the way I write, but it's not. ↗

— Kenneth Koch

#i #i write #influenced #me #other

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. ↗

— Kenneth Koch

#early #even #ever #friends #guess

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

— Kenneth Koch

#generation #good #maybe #poets #really