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Kenneth Koch Quotes: One trouble with a kind of falsely therapeutic and always reassuring attitude that it is easy to fall into with old people, is the tendency to be satisfied with too little.
         

One trouble with a kind of falsely therapeutic and always reassuring attitude that it is easy to fall into with old people, is the tendency to be satisfied with too little.


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You aren't just the age you are. You are all the ages you ever have been!

You aren't just the age you are. You are all the ages you ever have been!



As for political poetry, as it's usually defined, it seems there's very little good political poetry.

As for political poetry, as it's usually defined, it seems there's very little good political poetry.



I'm a writer who likes to be influenced.

I'm a writer who likes to be influenced.



Picasso said once when being interviewed that one should not be one's own connoisseur.

Picasso said once when being interviewed that one should not be one's own connoisseur.



Summer in the trees! “It is time to strangle several bad poets.

Summer in the trees! “It is time to strangle several bad poets.



When you finish a poem, it clicks shut like the top of a jewel box, but prose is endless. I haven't experienced an awful lot of clicking shut!

When you finish a poem, it clicks shut like the top of a jewel box, but prose is endless. I haven't experienced an awful lot of clicking shut!



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.

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.



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.

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.



Poetry is a deliberate attempt to make language suggestive and imprecise.

Poetry is a deliberate attempt to make language suggestive and imprecise.



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 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.





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There is a particular kind of pain, elation, loneliness and terror involved in this kind of madness... It will never end, for madness carves its own reality.

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