top of page
.png){kind=small}
"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."
Standard
Customized
Exlpore more Friendship quotes
"When a sinister person means to be your enemy, they always start by trying to become your friend."
"The only service a friend can really render is to keep up your courage by holding up to you a mirror in which you can see a noble image of yourself."
"A good friend loves you when the condition is better, a best friend holds your hand when you're in gutter."
"Friendship is a gift forever;Cherish everyday, forget it never"
"Friendship develops over tears, times, laughs and lunch."
"This is Annabeth, Jason said. "Uh, normally she doesn't judo-flip people."
"Was it okay? Adam had turned down so many offers of help from Gansey. Money for school, money for food, money for rent. Pity and charity, Adam had thought. For so long, he'd wanted Gansey to see him as an equal, but it was possible that all this time, the only person who needed to see that was Adam. Now he could see that it wasn't charity Gansey was offering. It was just truth. And something else: friendship of the unshakable kind. Friendship you could swear on. That could be busted nearly to breaking and come back stronger than before."
"Two kinds of people have many friends, one with bank balance and other with boldness."
"In times of your need, you will know those who really love you."
"Don't appreciate me, I'm not up to it. Don't criticize me, I don't deserve it. Just be my friend and forgive me, because I am craving for it."
Explore more quotes by Kenneth Koch
"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."
"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."
"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."
"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!"
"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."
"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 what somebody said that was not exactly on the same subject tend to get lost."
bottom of page