Kenneth Koch Quotes

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

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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

I took a course at Harvard with Delmore Schwartz, a writing course, and there were about 30 of us... I don't really see vast movements full of wonderful poets all over the place. - Kenneth Koch

I've written fiction before... I had tried to write stories, almost true stories before, but I never had found a way to do it. - Kenneth Koch