Kenneth Koch Quotes & Sayings (Page 2)

“It's a well known thing that ordinary perceptions can have a strange aspect when one is travelling.”

“Maybe there are three or four really good poets in a generation.”

“The subject matter of the stories on the surface... there seem to be a number of stories about travel.”

“I'm a writer who likes to be influenced.”

“It seems everything is so full of possibilities one can hardly take it all in.”

“It takes a long time to publish a book.”

“I got married, other people went off. We had sort of another public-we were our entire readership for many years, and we were very excited by each other.”

“I was born in Cincinnati, Ohio. My family was not nationally known as being a literary family, though my mother and my mother's side of the family in general were interested in literature.”

“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.”

“Once I start writing about something, it goes off rather fast, and sometimes details which might be interesting such as what the room looked like or what somebody said that was not exactly on the same subject tend to get lost.”