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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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Donna Grant

"Many men are contemptuous of riches; few can give them away."

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"Men exist for the sake of one another."

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"When men come to like a sea-life, they are not fit to live on land."

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Donna Grant

"A man should be upright, not be kept upright."

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"There are certainly not so many men of large fortune in the world, as there are pretty women to deserve them."

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"In order that all men may be taught to speak the truth, it is necessary that all likewise should learn to hear it."

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"Let no such man be trusted."

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"I have found men to be more kind than I expected, and less just."

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"When a man is out of sight, it is not too long before he is out of mind."

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Donna Grant

"We must conceive of this whole universe as one commonwealth of which both gods and men are members."

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Kenneth Koch
"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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Kenneth Koch
"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."

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Kenneth Koch
"The subject matter of the stories on the surface... there seem to be a number of stories about travel."

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

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Kenneth Koch
"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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Kenneth Koch
"I certainly have the feeling that I'm the same person even though I've changed a great deal."

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Kenneth Koch
"It seems everything is so full of possibilities one can hardly take it all in."

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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."

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Kenneth Koch
"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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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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