#poe

I always liked the magic of poetry but now I'm just starting to see behind the curtain of even the best poets, how they've used, tried and tested craft to create the illusion. Wonderful feeling of exhilaration to finally be there. ↗

— David Knopfler

#behind #best #craft #create #curtain

Poetry is fascinating. As soon as it begins the poetry has changed the thing into something extra, and somehow prose can go over into poetry. ↗

— Michael Tippett

#changed #extra #fascinating #go #into

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

— Kenneth Koch

#i #myself #never #new #new york

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 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

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. ↗

— Kenneth Koch

#either #encouraging #getting #guess #had

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

— Kenneth Koch

#generation #good #maybe #poets #really