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

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It is the hour to be drunken! to escape being the martyred slaves of time, be ceaselessly drunk. On wine, on poetry, or on virtue, as you wish. – Charles Baudelaire

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To feel most beautifully alive means to be reading something beautiful, ready always to apprehend in the flow of language the sudden flash of poetry. – John Andrew Holmes

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Teach you children poetry it opens the mind, lends grace to wisdom and makes the heroic virtues hereditary. – Walter Scott

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Poetry is truth in its Sunday clothes. – Author Unknown

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None are so old as those who have outlived enthusiasm. – Henry David Thoreau

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The best mirror is an old friend. – Peter Nivio Zarlenga

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