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
Once I start writing about something, it goes off rather fast, and sometimes details which might be interesting such as what the room looked like or what somebody said that was not exactly on the same subject tend to get lost.
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| Birth: | 27th February, 1925 |
| Death: | 6th July, 2002 |
| Nationality: | American |
| Profession: | Playwright, Poet, Professor |
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