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Kenneth Koch

"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."

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"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."

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"From the happy expression on their faces you might have supposed that they welcomed the war. I have met with men who loved stamps, and stones, and snakes, but I could not imagine any man loving war."

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"The man who looks for security, even in the mind, is like a man who would chop off his limbs in order to have artificial ones which will give him no pain or trouble."

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"No man loves the bearer of bad tidings."

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"People who know little are usually great talkers, while men who know much say little."

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"It's a man's world, and you men can have it."

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"What saves a man is to take a step. Then another step."

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"Few men have been admired of their familiars."

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"And what is the potential man, after all? Is he not the sum of all that is human? Divine, in other words?"

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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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"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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"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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