Quote by Kenneth Koch
I love painting and music, of course. I dont know nearly as much a

I love painting and music, of course. I dont know nearly as much about them as I know about poetry. Ive certainly been influenced by fiction. I was overwhelmed by War and Peace when I read it, and I didnt read it until I was in my late 20s. – 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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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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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

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The middle class is doing fine in fiction. But its not what gets me going. I love the working class, and everyone from it Ive met, and think theyre incredibly witty, inventive – theres a lot of poetry there. – Martin Amis

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Poetry is rather an approach to things, to life, than it is typographical production. – Joseph Brodsky

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I used to write sonnets and various things, and moved from there into writing prose, which, incidentally, is a lot more interesting than poetry, including the rhythms of prose. – Shelby Foote

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Translation is an interestingly different way to be involved both with poetry and with the language that Ive found myself living in much of the time. I think the two feed each other. – Marilyn Hacker

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