I was excited by what my painter friends were doing, and they seemed to be interested in our poetry too, and that was a wonderful little, fizzy sort of world.

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• Kenneth Koch:

  I never thought of myself as a New York poet or as an American poet.

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

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  Once I start writing about something, it goes off rather fast, and sometimes details which might be

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  I'm a writer who likes to be influenced.

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  It takes a long time to publish a book.