What did Kenneth Koch mean by: You can’t be too influenced by a great poet. You simply have to live through it. - Kenneth Koch Poet · USA Copy
+ Maybe there are three or four really good poets in a generation. Feraz Zeid, January 13, 2024January 13, 2024, Kenneth Koch, Four, Generations, 0 - Kenneth Koch Poet · USA
+ All poetry comes from repetition. Feraz Zeid, August 19, 2023December 12, 2023, Kenneth Koch, Repetition, 0 - Kenneth Koch Poet · USA
+ It’s a well known thing that ordinary perceptions can have a strange aspect when one is travelling. Feraz Zeid, January 14, 2024January 14, 2024, Kenneth Koch, Journey, Ordinary, Perception, 0 - Kenneth Koch Poet · USA
+ It takes a long time to publish a book. Feraz Zeid, September 24, 2023December 24, 2023, Kenneth Koch, Book, Long Time, 0 - Kenneth Koch Poet · USA
+ Picasso said once when being interviewed that one should not be one’s own connoisseur. Feraz Zeid, January 13, 2024January 13, 2024, Kenneth Koch, 0 - Kenneth Koch Poet · USA
+ Poetry is a deliberate attempt to make language suggestive and imprecise. Feraz Zeid, January 13, 2024January 13, 2024, Kenneth Koch, Deliberate, Language, Poetry, 0 - Kenneth Koch Poet · USA
+ You aren’t just the age you are. You are all the ages you ever have been! Feraz Zeid, January 14, 2024January 14, 2024, Kenneth Koch, Age, 0 - Kenneth Koch Poet · USA
+ It’s enormously cheering to get a good review by someone who seems to understand your work. Feraz Zeid, January 13, 2024January 13, 2024, Kenneth Koch, Cheer, Reviews, 0 - Kenneth Koch Poet · USA
O woman! thou wert fashioned to beguile: So have all sages said, all poets sung. - Jean Ingelow Poet · England
I am not less poet; I am more conscious of all that I am, am not, and might become. - Jean Toomer Writer
The poet will not be satisfied with recording, the poet will have to transform. - Jeanette Winterson Author · England
The present is never poetic as it serves necessity, necessity, however, is prosaic. - Franz Grillparzer Writer · Austria
We talk so abstractly about poetry because all of us are usually bad poets. Explain - Friedrich Nietzsche Philosopher · Germany
