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Famous Kenneth Koch Quotes
“Maybe there are three or four really good poets in a generation.”
“You can't be too influenced by a great poet. You simply have to live through it.”
“Summer in the trees! “It is time to strangle several bad poets.”
Source: On the Great Atlantic Rainway: Selected Poems 1950-1988
“I never thought of myself as a New York poet or as an American poet.”