76 Quotes by 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.

If you want to know how much I love and care for you, count the waves.

Summer in the trees! “It is time to strangle several bad poets.

Poetry is a deliberate attempt to make language suggestive and imprecise.

You aren't just the age you are. You are all the ages you ever have been!

You aren’t just the age you are. You are all the ages you ever have been!

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!

It’s enormously cheering to get a good review by someone who seems to understand your work.

As for political poetry, as it’s usually defined, it seems there’s very little good political poetry.