Picasso said once when being interviewed that one should not be one's own connoisseur.

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• Kenneth Koch:

  As I look over my work, I mean every time I look over my early work, I see, yes, I could do that th

• Kenneth Koch:

  I've had trouble with criticism, I guess. It's hard to know what role criticism plays in either enc

• Kenneth Koch:

  It's enormously cheering to get a good review by someone who seems to understand your work.

• Kenneth Koch:

  Certainly, it seems true enough that there's a good deal of irony in the world... I mean, if you li

• Kenneth Koch:

  Politics is there the way men and women are there, the way the Atlantic Ocean is there. Sometimes I

• Kenneth Koch:

  As for political poetry, as it's usually defined, it seems there's very little good political poetr

• Kenneth Koch:

  I love painting and music, of course. I don't know nearly as much about them as I know about poetry

• Kenneth Koch:

  Maybe there are three or four really good poets in a generation.

• Kenneth Koch:

  I got married, other people went off. We had sort of another public-we were our entire readership f

• Kenneth Koch:

  I was excited by what my painter friends were doing, and they seemed to be interested in our poetry