Quote by Kenneth Koch
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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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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Travel
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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

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Poetry
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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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I dont think rap really fits in to American Idol in the sense that I believe rap is an art form in itself more akin to poetry, more akin to drama, if you will. – Nigel Lythgoe

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The desert attracts the nomad, the ocean the sailor, the infinite the poet. – Author Unknown

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One of the things Ive always liked about my husband is hes very good at lots of stuff. He was an English teacher when I met him. He wrote poetry and played the guitar. As time went on, he decided to go into economics, so hes very analytical and mathematical in addition to his artsy side. – Ally Condie

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But poetry is a way of language, it is not its subject or its makers background or interests or hobbies or fixations. It is nearer to utterance than history. – Thomas Lynch

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