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Kenneth Koch quotes: It's enormously cheering to get a good review by someone who seems to understand your work.

It's enormously cheering to get a good review by someone who seems to understand your work.

Kenneth Koch quotes: Picasso said once when being interviewed that one should not be one's own connoisseur.

Picasso said once when being interviewed that one should not be one's own connoisseur.

Kenneth Koch quotes: The uniform of the gladdest malt is its sureness.

The uniform of the gladdest malt is its sureness.

Kenneth Koch quotes: Poetry, which is written while no one is looking, is meant to be looked at for all time.

Poetry, which is written while no one is looking, is meant to be looked at for all time.

Kenneth Koch quotes: AESTHETICS OF THE AESTHETICIANWhat is the aestheticianBut a mule hitched to the times?

AESTHETICS OF THE AESTHETICIAN
What is the aesthetician
But a mule hitched to the times?

Kenneth Koch quotes: It takes a long time to publish a book.

It takes a long time to publish a book.

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

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

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

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

Kenneth Koch quotes: I probably misunderstand misunderstanding itself

I probably misunderstand misunderstanding itself

Kenneth Koch quotes: All poetry comes from repetition.

All poetry comes from repetition.

Kenneth Koch quotes: Maybe poetry took the life out of both of them,Idea and friendship.

Maybe poetry took the life out of both of them,
Idea and friendship.

Kenneth Koch quotes: AESTHETICS OF INTEGRITYFor every star in the skySomeone is holding his ground.

AESTHETICS OF INTEGRITY
For every star in the sky
Someone is holding his ground.

Kenneth Koch quotes: AESTHETICS OF COMEDY ASLEEPDon't wake the clownOr he may knock you down.

AESTHETICS OF COMEDY ASLEEP
Don't wake the clown
Or he may knock you down.

Kenneth Koch quotes: You have enchanted me with a single kissWhich can never be undoneUntil the destruction of language

You have enchanted me
with a single kiss
Which can never be undone
Until the destruction of language

Kenneth Koch quotes: I'm a writer who likes to be influenced.

I'm a writer who likes to be influenced.

Kenneth Koch quotes: AESTHETICS OF AVANT-GARDE THEATREMake the stage an actorMake an actor the stage.

AESTHETICS OF AVANT-GARDE THEATRE
Make the stage an actor
Make an actor the stage.

Kenneth Koch quotes: When you get an idea, go and write. Don't waste it in conversation.

When you get an idea, go and write. Don't waste it in conversation.

Kenneth Koch quotes: I never thought of myself as a New York poet or as an American poet.

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

Kenneth Koch quotes: Maybe there are three or four really good poets in a generation.

Maybe there are three or four really good poets in a generation.

Kenneth Koch quotes: Lies belong in poems

Lies belong in poems

Kenneth Koch quotes: Poetry is a deliberate attempt to make language suggestive and imprecise.

Poetry is a deliberate attempt to make language suggestive and imprecise.

Kenneth Koch quotes: 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!

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!

Kenneth Koch quotes: AESTHETICS OF OPERADon't sing an ariaTo someone who can'tSing one back.

AESTHETICS OF OPERA
Don't sing an aria
To someone who can't
Sing one back.

Kenneth Koch quotes: If you want to know how much I love and care for you, count the waves.

If you want to know how much I love and care for you, count the waves.

Kenneth Koch quotes: I certainly have the feeling that I'm the same person even though I've changed a great deal.

I certainly have the feeling that I'm the same person even though I've changed a great deal.

Kenneth Koch quotes: A basso sings, and a soprano answers him.Then there is thunder in a clear blue sky,And, from the earth, a sigh: This song is finished.

A basso sings, and a soprano answers him.
Then there is thunder in a clear blue sky,
And, from the earth, a sigh: This song is finished.

Kenneth Koch quotes: As for political poetry, as it's usually defined, it seems there's very little good political poetry.

As for political poetry, as it's usually defined, it seems there's very little good political poetry.

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

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

Kenneth Koch quotes: You can't be too influenced by a great poet. You simply have to live through it.

You can't be too influenced by a great poet. You simply have to live through it.