Kenneth Koch People Quotations

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'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.

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.

As charming as old people are, one doesn't want to have a 75-year-old baby. One wants to make something new.

I mean, there are excesses all over the place. People are always saying what are the different schools of American poetry.