I've had trouble with criticism, I guess. It's hard to know what role criticism plays in either encouraging poets or in getting other people to read them. Kenneth Koch criticismencourageguess Change image and share on social
The subject matter of the stories on the surface... there seem to be a number of stories about travel. Kenneth Koch matternumbstory Change image and share on social
As I look over my work, I mean every time I look over my early work, I see, yes, I could do that then and then I could do that and that... That may be the hardest thing for a writer, at least for a poet, to tell what the identity of his work is. Kenneth Koch earlyhardidentity share on social
Some of the French surrealists at the beginning of the war had come over to New York and they brought out this magazine. It was a big, glossy magazine full of surrealist things. Kenneth Koch beginbigbring Change image and share on social
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 20s30searly share on social
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 it's not. Kenneth Koch influencepaintpart Change image and share on social
Politics is there the way men and women are there, the way the Atlantic Ocean is there. Sometimes I've written about politics specifically, I mean about politics as it's understood on television and in newspapers. Kenneth Koch atlantichaveman share on social
Certainly, it seems true enough that there's a good deal of irony in the world... I mean, if you live in a world full of politicians and advertising, there's obviously a lot of deception. Kenneth Koch advertisedealdeception Change image and share on social
Picasso said once when being interviewed that one should not be one's own connoisseur. Kenneth Koch connoisseurinterviewpicasso Change image and share on social
It seems everything is so full of possibilities one can hardly take it all in. Kenneth Koch fullpossibility Change image and share on social
