Kenneth Koch Seems Quotations

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.

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

I was influenced by surrealist poetry and painting as were thousands of other people, and it seems to me to have become a part of the way I write, but it's not.

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.