"Poetry, which is written while no one is looking, is meant to be looked at for all time."

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Source : Kenneth Koch (2012). “The Collected Poems of Kenneth Koch”, p.542, Knopf

Kenneth Koch

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“Fangâ€™s hand gently smoothed my hair off my neck. My breath froze in my chest, and every sense seemed hyperalert. His hand stroked my hair again, so softly, and then trailed across my neck and shoulder and down my back, making me shiver. I looked up. â€œWhat the heck are you doing?â€ â€œHelping you change your mind,â€ he whispered, and then he leaned over, tilted my chin up, and kissed me.”
“I do think that people have a desire to talk about issues they may have wanted to avoid before. I've never had so many random conversations with people where they're so ready to talk about race, gender, sexual identity, or things that are happening in politics.”
“No enterprise can exist for itself alone. It ministers to some great need, it performs some great service, not for itself, but for others; or failing therein, it ceases to be profitable and ceases to exist.”
“I'm always the cousin that can't make it to the family functions because I'm busy.”
“Like the canary in the coal mine, the climate changes already evident in the Arctic are a call to action.”
“Another of the things I started to do during this time was what Buddhists normally call "meditation" or, in Christian terms, "contemplative prayer". It began to supersede deipnosophy as my favorite hobby.”

Source : "Beyond peace and quiet" by Sara Maitland, www.theguardian.com. November 7, 2008.
“Happiness is not being afraid.”

Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
“I'm also politically independent so I'm not a fan of either the Democrats in Congress or the Republicans in Congress.”

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