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Kenneth Koch Quotes
«I'm a writer who likes to be influenced.»
Author: Kenneth Koch
«The subject matter of the stories on the surface... there seem to be a number of stories about travel.»
Author: Kenneth Koch
«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.»
Author: Kenneth Koch
«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.»
Author: Kenneth Koch
«I discovered modern poetry I think quite late, when I was 17, through an anthology, a Louis Untermeyer anthology. Of course, I was crazy about modern poetry as soon as I discovered it.»
Author: Kenneth Koch
«When I was 18 years old I had to go in the Army-it was World War II-and I didn't write very much at first, but when I was actually in combat in the Philippines I managed to write a few poems. It was reassuring to be able to write poems while I was in this terrible war.»
Author: Kenneth Koch
«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.»
Author: Kenneth Koch
«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.»
Author: Kenneth Koch
«I simply was ignoring the fact that The Waste Land indeed made it seem to many poets that one had to be depressed-not that The Waste Land is a bad poem, it's a wonderful poem-that one had to feel despair, that one had to think that the modern world was terrible.»
Author: Kenneth Koch
«Of course, I like Byron enormously; I'm crazy about Don Juan. And of course Keats and Shelley and I suppose everyone that everyone likes.»
Author: Kenneth Koch