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Kenneth Koch Quotes

American - Poet | February 27, 1925 - July 6, 2002

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

Work Good Someone Understand Review

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

Said Own Being Should Once Picasso

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.

Family Mother Literature Born Side

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.

Beginning War New York New Over Out

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

Great Feeling Person Same Deal Even

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.

Work Time Identity Look Early Mean

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.

People Criticism Trouble Know Hard

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.

Good Live Advertising World Enough

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.

Women Men Politics Ocean Television

As for political poetry, as it's usually defined, it seems there's very little good political poetry.

Good Poetry Political Little Seems

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.

Love Music Peace War Poetry Late

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

Good Generation Three Four Poets

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