76 Quotes by Kenneth Koch

I’ve had trouble with criticism, I guess. It’s hard to know what role criticism plays in either encouraging poets or in getting other people to read them.

I probably misunderstand misunderstanding itself.

Politics is there the way men and women are there, the way the Atlantic Ocean is there. Sometimes I’ve written about politics specifically, I mean about politics as it’s understood on television and in newspapers.

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