Certainly, it seems true enough that theres a good deal of irony in the world… I mean, if you live in a world full of politicians and advertising, theres obviously a lot of deception. – Kenneth Koch
I wonder if I ever thought of an ideal reader… I guess when I was in my 20s and in New York and maybe even in my early 30s, I would write for my wife Janice… mainly for my poet friends and my wife, who was very smart about poetry. – Kenneth Koch
As for political poetry, as its usually defined, it seems theres very little good political poetry. – Kenneth Koch
I was influenced by surrealist poetry and painting as were thousands of other people, and it seems to me to have become a part of the way I write, but its not. – Kenneth Koch
You built a factory out there, good for you. But I want to be clear. You moved your goods to market on the roads that the rest of us paid for. You hired workers that the rest of us paid to educate. You were safe in your factory because of police forces and fire forces that the rest of us paid for. – Elizabeth Warren