#ld

If I traveled to the end of the rainbow as Dame Fortune did intend, Murphy would be there to tell me the pot's at the other end. ↗

— Edward Koch

#did #end #fortune #i #intend

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. ↗

— Kenneth Koch

#early #early work #every #every time #hardest

I was excited by what my painter friends were doing, and they seemed to be interested in our poetry too, and that was a wonderful little, fizzy sort of world. ↗

— Kenneth Koch

#excited #friends #i #interested #little

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

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

— Kenneth Koch

#connoisseur #interviewed #once #own #picasso

Germany's fate is decided first and foremost in Europe. Reconciliation and cooperation in Europe have brought us freedom, peace and prosperity. Who would have dared to believe so much 50 years ago? ↗

— Horst Koehler

#believe #brought #cooperation #dared #decided

To teach a child an instrument without first giving him preparatory training and without developing singing, reading and dictating to the highest level along with the playing is to build upon sand. ↗

— Zoltan Kodaly

#build #child #developing #dictating #first

Let us take our children seriously! Everything else follows from this... only the best is good enough for a child. ↗

— Zoltan Kodaly

#child #children #else #enough #everything

We should read music in the same way that an educated adult will read a book: in silence, but imagining the sound. ↗

— Zoltan Kodaly

#book #educated #imagining #music #read

I would advise my young colleagues, the composers of symphonies, to drop in sometimes at the kindergarten, too. It is there that it is decided whether there will be anybody to understand their works in twenty years' time. ↗

— Zoltan Kodaly

#anybody #colleagues #composers #decided #drop