It seems everything is so full of possibilities one can hardly take it all in.
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One idea may hide another: Life is simpleHide Life is incredibly complex, as in the prose of Gertrude Stein
One sentence hides another and is another as well.
Kenneth Koch
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
I discovered modern poetry I think quite late, when I was 17, through an anthology, a Louis Untermeyer anthology. Of course, I was crazy about modern poetry as soon as I discovered it.
Kenneth Koch
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
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
As for political poetry, as it's usually defined, it seems there's very little good political poetry.
Kenneth Koch
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