Kenneth Koch Quotes

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

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

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In 2008, Senator John McCain forbid his staff from using an ad that referred to his opponent Barack Obama's inflammatory former pastor Jeremiah Wright or from raising that issue in any other way. He believed it was a sneaky way to use Obama's race against him.

John Dickerson

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War is God's way of teaching Americans geography.

Ambrose Bierce

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I've changed as a person because of the art of drag.

Alyssa Edwards

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What God wants is to reveal himself more fully to us.

Steven Curtis Chapman

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I haven't experienced love at first sight yet. I've seen very, very beautiful girls and been awestruck but never love at first sight. I think confidence goes such a long way with women. A girl who is confident with who she is and she can really flaunt that is really sexy.

Tristan Wilds

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Before I begin to write, I listen to music that inspires me. I listen to folk Punjabi music, sufi music.

Rupi Kaur

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Arkansas, the state Bill Clinton loves and that loves him back, is a place with just no pretension at all.

Molly Ivins

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Each couple's version of intimacy is so fascinating to me. A friend will tell me about her marriage, and I'll think, 'Yikes, they have horrible communication! They're going to get divorced!' And then I'll hear about them at another time and think, 'Wow, they love each other so much!'

Miranda July

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I feel like I am one of those artists that, thank god, can sing live.

Miranda Lambert

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One of the pleasures of being a Jew, I don't have to tell you, it allows you anti-Semitism.

Joseph Epstein

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I have always felt my role was to do anything I could to enable the powerless to speak. I want America to hear these voices because they are beautiful voices.

Jonathan Kozol

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If you're not being pessimistic, you're not being very realistic. But I think one must always have hope, and when you have children, of course, you have no choice but to work your tail off to try and protect the future for your children. And that is infused by hope in the end.

David Suzuki

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