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I was excited by what my painter friends were doing, and they seem

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. – Kenneth Koch

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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

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As for political poetry, as its usually defined, it seems theres very little good political poetry. – Kenneth Koch

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

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The poet needs to admire; he is in a merely human sense the high priest of the true, the beautiful, the grand. On whatever side he spreads his wings it is his mission to bear the universal homage to these worthy objects, or to some ideas of them. – Alexandre Vinet (1797–1847)

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When I was writing pretty poor poetry, this girl with midnight black hair told me to go on. – Carl Sandburg

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Poets are like baseball pitchers. Both have their moments. The intervals are the tough things. – Robert Frost

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Poetry is just the evidence of life. If your life is burning well, poetry is just the ash. – Leonard Cohen

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