76 Quotes by Kenneth Koch

It seems everything is so full of possibilities one can hardly take it all in.

I never thought of myself as a New York poet or as an American poet.

I'm a writer who likes to be influenced.

It takes a long time to publish a book.

It's a well known thing that ordinary perceptions can have a strange aspect when one is travelling.

Maybe there are three or four really good poets in a generation.

The subject matter of the stories on the surface... there seem to be a number of stories about travel.

I got married, other people went off. We had sort of another public-we were our entire readership for many years, and we were very excited by each other.

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.