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Kenneth Koch

"As I look over my work, I mean every time I look over my early work, I see, yes, I could do that then and then I could do that and that... That may be the hardest thing for a writer, at least for a poet, to tell what the identity of his work is."

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"As I look over my work, I mean every time I look over my early work, I see, yes, I could do that then and then I could do that and that... That may be the hardest thing for a writer, at least for a poet, to tell what the identity of his work is."

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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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Amber Hurdle

"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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"Picasso said once when being interviewed that one should not be one's own connoisseur."
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"I've had trouble with criticism, I guess. It's hard to know what role criticism plays in either encouraging poets or in getting other people to read them."
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"I'm a writer who likes to be influenced."
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"It takes a long time to publish a book."
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"It's a well known thing that ordinary perceptions can have a strange aspect when one is travelling."
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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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