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Kenneth Koch Quotes

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

I got married, other people went off. We had sort of another public-we were our entire readership for many years, and we were very excited by each other.

People Years Excited Got Off Our

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.

Poetry World Friends Doing Excited

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

Myself New York Thought American New

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

Possibilities Everything Take Seems

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.

Wife Smart Poetry New York Thought

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.

Poetry People Me Painting Become

Once I start writing about something, it goes off rather fast, and sometimes details which might be interesting such as what the room looked like or what somebody said that was not exactly on the same subject tend to get lost.

Writing Start Details Interesting

The subject matter of the stories on the surface... there seem to be a number of stories about travel.

Travel Matter Seem Surface Stories

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!

You Top Finish Box Poem Shut

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

Strange Ordinary Well Travelling

I'm a writer who likes to be influenced.

Who Writer Likes Influenced

It takes a long time to publish a book.

Time Book Long Long Time Publish

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