On the Great Atlantic Rainway: Selected...
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“AESTHETICS OF INTEGRITY For every star in the sky Someone is holding his ground.”
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“I certainly have the feeling that I'm the same person even though I've changed a great deal.”
“Picasso said once when being interviewed that one should not be one's own connoisseur.”
“It's enormously cheering to get a good review by someone who seems to understand your work.”
“When you get an idea, go and write. Don't waste it in conversation.”
“Maybe there are three or four really good poets in a generation.”
Source: On the Great Atlantic Rainway: Selected Poems 1950-1988
“Poetry is a deliberate attempt to make language suggestive and imprecise.”
“You can't be too influenced by a great poet. You simply have to live through it.”
“Poetry, which is written while no one is looking, is meant to be looked at for all time.”
Source: The Collected Poems of Kenneth Koch
“Summer in the trees! “It is time to strangle several bad poets.”
Source: On the Great Atlantic Rainway: Selected Poems 1950-1988
“It seems everything is so full of possibilities one can hardly take it all in.”
“You aren't just the age you are. You are all the ages you ever have been!”
“I never thought of myself as a New York poet or as an American poet.”
“If you want to know how much I love and care for you, count the waves.”