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I was influenced by surrealist poetry and painting as were thousands of other people, and it seems to me to have become a part of the way I write, but it's not.


Kenneth Koch

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ED KOCH and I thought the people who voted against him were nuts.
ED KOCH I wouldn't take him lightly at all, ... Without him, the Republicans have no one. With him, they hav...
ED KOCH The fireworks begin today. Each diploma is a lighted match, each one of you is a fuse
ED KOCH Clinton has more important things to worry about. He not only risks being destroyed historically, li...
ED KOCH I am not for public executions, though I support the death penalty. One, it's an appropriate punishm...
ED KOCH When all are wrong, everyone is right.
EDWARD KOCH In business, real jobs profitably produce goods and services that people value more highly than thei...
CHARLES KOCH Target shooting is occurring now. Paintball is occurring now,
DAVID KOCH The knife of corruption endangered the life of New York City. The scalpel of the law is making us we...
ED KOCH I studied what principles under-laid peace and prosperity and concluded the only way to achieve soci...
CHARLES KOCH From the beginning of time, business has cozied up to government and gotten restrictions on competit...
CHARLES KOCH Have you ever lived in the suburbs? It's sterile. It's nothing. It's wasting your life.
ED KOCH Stereotypes lose their power when the world is found to be more complex than the stereotype would su...
ED KOCH We're in the hands of the state legislature and God, but at the moment, the state legislature ha...
ED KOCH I thought Paulie could jump. I know he's not fleet of foot, but at least have some hops. I guess...
BILLY KOCH I'm a bit of a romantic, to a fault. It's led me to some great things and also some sad thin...
ALEXANDER KOCH I wouldn't be surprised to see the Shanghai Shipping Exchange spread throughout China, if they want ...
CHRIS KOCH When I first went to college, I went to Western Michigan. I had been rejected by a bunch of schools ...
ALEXANDER KOCH From a young age, I had done a lot of theater and musical theater. I wasn't really sure what I w...
ALEXANDER KOCH We are riding the temperature roller coaster here,
GREG KOCH We're the largest independent beer wholesaler in Southern California, and our trucks cover a lot of ...
GREG KOCH Consumers are starting to understand that the complexity and flavors available in beer are deep and ...
GREG KOCH Never has there been a better time or place in history to have access to such a range of character a...
GREG KOCH The magazine and Internet program that Harmon Media Group has put together for us has allowed our co...
GREG KOCH She was a lot of fun, a good person. If you were on her side, she was on your side.
GREG KOCH