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!
Kenneth Koch Quotes
I wonder if I ever thought of an ideal reader... I guess when I was in my 20s and in New York and maybe even in my early 30s, I would write for my wife Janice... mainly for my poet friends and my wife, who was very smart about poetry.
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| Birth: | 27th February, 1925 |
| Death: | 6th July, 2002 |
| Nationality: | American |
| Profession: | Playwright, Poet, Professor |
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