Maybe there are three or four really good poets in a generation.
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I mean, there are excesses all over the place. People are always saying what are the different schools of American poetry.Kenneth Koch
I simply was ignoring the fact that The Waste Land indeed made it seem to many poets that one had to be depressed-not that The Waste Land is a bad poem, it's a wonderful poem-that one had to feel despair, that one had to think that the modern world was te
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It's not that I was indifferent ot the horrors of war, because that's what inspired the poem to a large extent, but I couldn't write about them.
Kenneth Koch
As for political poetry, as it's usually defined, it seems there's very little good political 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 think my poetry was very influenced-it seems almost dumb to say it-but it was very influenced by Shakespeare. Very early on I read his plays... and, I don't know, I started speaking in blank verse at a rather early age.
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