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.
If you want to know how much I love and care for you, count the waves. - Kenneth Koch
If you want to know how much I love and care for you, count the waves.
- Kenneth Koch
I thought, 'There are a lot of poets who have the courage to look into the abyss, but there are very few who have the courage to look happiness in th… - Kenneth Koch
I thought, 'There are a lot of poets who have the courage to look into the abyss, but there are very few who have the courage to look happiness in th…
One day the Nouns were clustered in the street. An Adjective walked by, with her dark beauty. The Nouns were struck, moved, changed. The next day a V… - Kenneth Koch
One day the Nouns were clustered in the street. An Adjective walked by, with her dark beauty. The Nouns were struck, moved, changed. The next day a V…
I'm a writer who likes to be influenced. - Kenneth Koch
I'm a writer who likes to be influenced.
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 … - Kenneth Koch
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 …
When you get an idea, go and write. Don't waste it in conversation. - Kenneth Koch
When you get an idea, go and write. Don't waste it in conversation.
Poetry is a deliberate attempt to make language suggestive and imprecise. - Kenneth Koch
Poetry is a deliberate attempt to make language suggestive and imprecise.
It seems everything is so full of possibilities one can hardly take it all in. - Kenneth Koch
It seems everything is so full of possibilities one can hardly take it all in.
Poetry, which is written while no one is looking, is meant to be looked at for all time. - Kenneth Koch
Poetry, which is written while no one is looking, is meant to be looked at for all time.
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