Kenneth Koch Quotes

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

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: poet
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: February 27, 1925 - July 6, 2002

Topics

WorkTimeIdentityLookEarlyMean

I didn't get into racing to make friends.

Jimmie Johnson

FriendsRacingGetMake

I am often asked what it was like to be a woman clerking for Justice Scalia. 'Much like being a man clerking for him' is my easy answer. Justice Scalia believed in one simple principle: That law came to the court as an 'is,' not an 'ought.'

Joan Larsen

JusticeSimpleWomanManI AmLaw

About music shows... um... I do want to go on music shows.

Jessica Jung

MusicGoWantAboutShowsUm

Portugal is like Ziggy Stardust. The period is there, so you know that it's not the country, it's Portugal. The 'Man' states, 'He's the man.'

John Gourley

ManYouCountryKnowLikeStardust

The Clash were the first big love of my life. Lyrically, they inspired me to get out, explore life, and maybe kick some doors down.

John Niven

LifeLoveMeMy LifeDoorsDown

I think I made $55 a week, and it was bliss... I was doing theater. It was all I ever wanted to do. It was so much fun, and you got paid for it, and you met people, and it's the greatest education in the world. And in my little Greenbrier station wagon, I felt very much like a troubadour.

Jeffrey Tambor

EducationFunPeopleWorldThink

When I started out in the late '80s, my act was pretty terrible, and for years, I kind of toiled in obscurity. I don't believe in a hierarchy in comedy; I feel that a person deserves respect the first time they get onstage, and after that, they just have to be funny and get more consistent.

Andy Kindler

FunnyRespectTimeBelieveComedy

I might be in an airport, late or angry with a ticket person, and I'm going to sort of check myself, because part of me is seen as Eric Camden. We all need as much help as we can get. It's a role model to me as much as to anybody else.

Stephen Collins

MyselfAngryMeHelpLatePerson

It's a nice challenge to escape your reality. I think that's why actors do what we do. We like to play other people. It's therapeutic.

Stella Maeve

ChallengePeopleThinkRealityPlay

School is practice for the future, and practice makes perfect and nobody's perfect so why bother.

Tre Cool

FutureSchoolPracticePerfectWhy

I've always been very impatient. At age 10 I frankly found life boring, and I can remember age 9 having the awful thought, as it seems now looking back on it, A war! That should liven things up a bit!

Roger Bannister

LifeAgeWarLooking BackLooking

Men who like women rarely fall in love.

Robin Skelton

LoveWomenMenFallWhoLike

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