When I was 18 years old I had to go in the Army-it was World War II-and I didn't write very much at first, but when I was actually in combat in the Philippines I managed to write a few poems. It was reassuring to be able to write poems while I was in this terrible war. - Kenneth Koch Quotes
When I was 18 years old I had to go in the Army-it was World War II-and I didn't write very much at first, but when I was actually in combat in the Philippines I managed to write a few poems. It was reassuring to be able to write poems while I was in this terrible war. Kenneth Koch
 Army

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Certainly, it seems true enough that there's a good deal of irony in the world... I mean, if you live in a world full of politicians and advertising, there's obviously a lot of deception. - Kenneth Koch Quotes

Certainly, it seems true enough that there's a good deal of irony in the world... I mean, if you live in a world full of politicians and advertising, there's obviously a lot of deception.

Kenneth Koch

 American Poet Irony
It's a well known thing that ordinary perceptions can have a strange aspect when one is travelling. - Kenneth Koch Quotes

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

Kenneth Koch

 American Poet
It seems everything is so full of possibilities one can hardly take it all in. - Kenneth Koch Quotes

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

Kenneth Koch

 American Poet
Some of the French surrealists at the beginning of the war had come over to New York and they brought out this magazine. It was a big, glossy magazine full of surrealist things. - Kenneth Koch Quotes

Some of the French surrealists at the beginning of the war had come over to New York and they brought out this magazine. It was a big, glossy magazine full of surrealist things.

Kenneth Koch

 American Poet Beginning
Of course, I like Byron enormously; I'm crazy about Don Juan. And of course Keats and Shelley and I suppose everyone that everyone likes. - Kenneth Koch Quotes

Of course, I like Byron enormously; I'm crazy about Don Juan. And of course Keats and Shelley and I suppose everyone that everyone likes.

Kenneth Koch

 
I certainly have the feeling that I'm the same person even though I've changed a great deal. - Kenneth Koch Quotes

I certainly have the feeling that I'm the same person even though I've changed a great deal.

Kenneth Koch

 American Poet
I took a course at Harvard with Delmore Schwartz, a writing course, and there were about 30 of us... I don't really see vast movements full of wonderful poets all over the place. - Kenneth Koch Quotes

I took a course at Harvard with Delmore Schwartz, a writing course, and there were about 30 of us... I don't really see vast movements full of wonderful poets all over the place.

Kenneth Koch

 
Picasso said once when being interviewed that one should not be one's own connoisseur. - Kenneth Koch Quotes

Picasso said once when being interviewed that one should not be one's own connoisseur.

Kenneth Koch

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

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

Kenneth Koch

 People
Maybe there are three or four really good poets in a generation. - Kenneth Koch Quotes

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

Kenneth Koch

 American Poet Poet
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