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Kenneth Koch

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

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

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"I was born in Cincinnati, Ohio. My family was not nationally known as being a literary family, though my mother and my mother's side of the family in general were interested in literature."
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"I certainly have the feeling that I'm the same person even though I've changed a great deal."
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"It's enormously cheering to get a good review by someone who seems to understand your work."
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"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."
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"As for political poetry, as it's usually defined, it seems there's very little good political poetry."
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"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."
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