Kenneth Koch Quotes
When you finish a poem, it clicks shut like the top of a jewel box, but prose is endless. I haven't experienced an awful lot of clicking shut!
Quotes to Explore
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'Jurassic Park' and 'Star Wars' shoved me into loving sci-fi and film in general when I was a barely coherent 3-year-old. And 'Lord of the Rings' took me to another planet entirely. Before that series, I knew I loved writing, but after, I knew that I had to write.
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I'd assumed that a deal was a deal when Princeton admitted me, but I was wrong. The price of getting in - to the university itself, and to the great world it promised to open up - was an endless dunning for nebulous services that weren't included in the initial quote.
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I'm not pessimistic about much of anything.
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When I was a child, I used to paint intently. The older I become, and the closer death approaches, the brighter my life gets day by day.
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I have been interested in fashion since I was a kid. Then I lived in London, where it was more about costume and a personal statement of who you are than about fashion.
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I do not accept the right of big powers to change governments as and when it affects their interests.
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I do think people are definitely sick of the Kardashians.
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Nothing heightens chaos more than a berserk wild animal right in the middle.
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Men fall in love with their eyes - they like what they see - and women fall in love with their ears - they like what they hear!
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The funny thing is I'm not bothered or sad about being on my own - after all I've never had a husband.
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I think that it helps that I have acted. That said, it doesn't mean you're going to be a good director.
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I... now see a rare opportunity to push across the goal line much of the unfinished business of America: investing in our infrastructure and workers, universal healthcare, comprehensive immigration reform and scrubbing a tax code that's out of shape and behind the times.
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Strictly speaking, my interest is not in legal rights for animals but in a change of heart towards animals.
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The requirements for our evolution have changed. Survival is no longer sufficient. Our evolution now requires us to develop spiritually - to become emotionally aware and make responsible choices. It requires us to align ourselves with the values of the soul - harmony, cooperation, sharing, and reverence for life.
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When a child asks you something, answer him, for goodness' sake. But don't make a production of it. Children are children, but they can spot an evasion quicker than adults, an evasion simply muddles 'em.
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Children are the vessels into which adults pour their poison.
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Capitalism is an art form.
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A proud man is always looking down on things and people: and, of course, as long as you are looking down, you cannot see something that is above you.
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My wind is turned to bitter north,That was so soft a south before;My sky, that shone so sunny bright,With foggy gloom is clouded o’erMy gay green leaves are yellow-black,Upon the dank autumnal floor;For love, departed once, comes backNo more again, no more.
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Morally it makes no difference whether a person is killed in war or condemned to starve by the indifference of others.
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I want to do more comedy... I've done a couple TV shows that had some comedy going on.
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I think if I was Trinidadian, I would latch more on to the myths and romanticise the place more. I don't think it's my place to do that - they're not really mine. I'm an outsider.
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Hours of research can cut months of field work.
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When you finish a poem, it clicks shut like the top of a jewel box, but prose is endless. I haven't experienced an awful lot of clicking shut!
