Quote by Kenneth Koch
The subject matter of the stories on the surface... there seem to

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 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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Poetry
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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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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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Travel
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I think that somebody with the resources and innovation and the idea is going to come out of nowhere and come up with a successful space travel program. – Kevin J. Anderson

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Travel

My favorite thing is to go where Ive never been. – Diane Arbus

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Travel

The whole object of travel is not to set foot on foreign land it is at last to set foot on ones own country as a foreign land. – Gilbert K. Chesterton

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Travel

The desire to become a journalist came really because I very much like living abroad, and like to travel, and wanted to be paid for it. – John Pomfret

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Travel

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