Logo
Quote by Kenneth Koch
I wonder if I ever thought of an ideal reader... I guess when I wa

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

Other quotes by Kenneth Koch

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

Category:
Poetry
Author
Kenneth Koch
Read Quote

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

Category:
Travel
Author
Kenneth Koch
Read Quote

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

Category:
Poetry
Author
Kenneth Koch
Read Quote
Other Quotes from
Poetry
category

When you translate poetry in particular, youre obliged to look at how the writer with whom youre working puts together words, sentences, phrases, the triple tension between the line of verse, the syntax and the sentence. – Marilyn Hacker

Category:
Poetry

Poetry cant cure cancer, but it can save your life until you die. – Maurice Saatchi

Category:
Poetry

Concrete poets continue to turn out beautiful things, but to me theyre more visual than oral, and they almost really belong on the wall rather than in a book. I havent the least idea of where poetry is going. – James Laughlin

Category:
Poetry
[I]t is not health, it is convalescence that is poetical. Just as certain plants only yield all their fragrance to the fingers that crush them, so it is only in a state of suffering that certain affections utter all their poetry. – Alexandre Vinet (1797–1847)

Category:
Poetry

Random Quotes

The separation of church and state is a source of strength, but the conscience of our nation does not call for separation between men of state and faith in the Supreme Being. – Lyndon B. Johnson

Category:
Faith

Money is kind of a base subject. Like water, food, air and housing, it affects everything yet for some reason the world of academics thinks its a subject below their social standing. – Robert Kiyosaki

Category:
Food

Why does everyone think the future is space helmets, silver foil, and talking like computers, like a bad episode of Star Trek? – Tracey Ullman

Category:
Computers

Dachshunds are ideal dogs for small children, as they are already stretched and pulled to such a length that the child cannot do much harm one way or the other. – Robert Benchley

Category:
Dogs