Kenneth Koch Quotes

As charming as old people are, one doesn't want to have a 75-year-old baby. One wants to make something new.

- Kenneth Koch

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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. - Kenneth Koch

Also, I liked John Cage's music. I liked it for its craziness, the use of silence, the boldness-anything to get me away from writing about... I don't know what academic poets write about. - Kenneth Koch

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