It's a well known thing that ordinary perceptions can have a strange aspect when one is travelling.
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We used to live there, my wife and I, butOne life hid another life.
Kenneth Koch
When I was 18 years old I had to go in the Army-it was World War II-and I didn't write very much at first, but when I was actually in combat in the Philippines I managed to write a few poems. It was reassuring to be able to write poems while I was in this terrible war.
Kenneth Koch
Some people who write about poetry seem to have had trouble with my poetry because it is sometimes comic. I don't think the nature of my poetry is satirical or even ironic, I think it's essentially lyrical, but again I don't know if it's my position to say what my poetry is like.
Kenneth Koch
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!
Kenneth Koch
It seems everything is so full of possibilities one can hardly take it all in.
Kenneth Koch
Picasso said once when being interviewed that one should not be one's own connoisseur.
Kenneth Koch
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