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Kenneth Koch

"It takes a long time to publish a book."

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"Do not waste your time on Social Questions. What is the matter with the poor is Poverty; what is the matter with the rich is Uselessness."

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"Praise is the mode of love which always has some element of joy in it."

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"Taking on challenging projects is the way that one grows and extends one's range as a writer, one's technical command, so I consider the time well-spent."

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"Time is standing still. We are measuring ourselves by how far we are going."

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"Life has become the future. Every moment of your life is lived for the future."

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"Minutes remain the same length whether they are held against the span of years or minutes themselves. Yet, when minutes are held against themselves, they seem so terribly brief. Therefore, we'd be wise to celebrate life before minutes are all that's left."

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"Summer's lease hath all too short a date."

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"Every single moment is your life, so enjoy the moment to enjoy your life fully."

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"Life dances on the moment."

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"Forever, time is standing still. We are flying away with the wings of desire we call life."

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"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."
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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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"Maybe there are three or four really good poets in a generation."
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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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"It seems everything is so full of possibilities one can hardly take it all in."
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"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."
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