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Kenneth Koch

"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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"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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"As for political poetry, as it's usually defined, it seems there's very little good political poetry."
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"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!"
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"Certainly, it seems true enough that there's a good deal of irony in the world... I mean, if you live in a world full of politicians and advertising, there's obviously a lot of deception."
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"Picasso said once when being interviewed that one should not be one's own connoisseur."
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"I'm a writer who likes to be influenced."
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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 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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"The subject matter of the stories on the surface... there seem to be a number of stories about travel."
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"I never thought of myself as a New York poet or as an American poet."
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