#kenneth koch

[typewriter-worries]

What will survive of us is love

If Not, Winter: Fragments of Sappho, Anne Carson | A modern artist's recreation of prehistoric hand stencils found in caves | In Love With You, Kenneth Koch | The Lovers of Valdaro | War of the Foxes,  Richard Siken | The Kiss [Paolo and Francesca], Auguste Rodin | The Expatriates, Anne Sexton

#sappho #anne carson #kenneth koch #beat poetry #the lovers of valdaro #war of the foxes #richard siken #auguste rodin #anne sexton #webweaving #web weaving #web-weaving #dark academia #classic academia #light academia #romantic academia #love through history

[dreaminginthedeepsouth]

Woman and horse by Félix Thiollier, 1899.

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Aesthetics of Harshness to a Horse

You should never be harsh To a horse. A horse is always doing Its best. Otherwise it is a bad horse And harshness has no effect.

~Kenneth Koch

#Felix Thiollier #horse #horses #Aesthetics of harshness to a Horse #poem #reflection #Kenneth Koch

[t3chnobabble]

growing up

ladybird (2017) // olivia rodrigo, teenage dream // kenneth koch, poem for my twentieth birthday // mitski, class of 2013 // lorde, ribs // alison bechdel, fun home // dave parish, and the world goes 'round // fleetwood mac, landslide

#ladybird #olivia rodrigo #kenneth koch #mitski #lorde #alison bechdel #dave parish #fleetwood mac #web weaving #comparatives

[garethschweitzer]

Diane Seuss, from Frank: Sonnets

#diane seuss #basquiat #andy warhol #william burroughs #lou reed #richard hell #kenneth koch

[austinkleon]

Kenneth Koch, “Desire for Spring”

(from: The Collected Poems of Kenneth Koch)

#Kenneth koch #poetry

[manwalksintobar]

Aesthetics of Harshness to a Horse // Kenneth Koch

You should never be harsh To a horse. A horse is always doing Its best. Otherwise it is a bad horse And harshness has no effect.

#poetry #Kenneth Koch #American poetry #beat poetry #Confucianism #cruelty #micropoetry #horses #funny

[biblioklept]

“One Train May Hide Another” by Kenneth Koch (sign at a railroad crossing in Kenya) In a poem, one line may hide another line, As at a crossing, one train may hide another train. That is, if you are waiting to cross The tracks, wait to do it for one moment at Least after the first train is gone. And so when you read Wait until you have read the next line— Then it is safe to go on reading. In a…

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[elizabethanism]

“You want a social life, with friends.

A passionate love life and as well

To work hard every day. What’s true

Is of these three you may have two

And two can pay you dividends

But never may have three. …

— Kenneth Koch

#Kenneth Koch #Social #Life #Friends #Work #Love

[cutiewithawakenedheart]

“She fainted

And we revived her with flowers. She smiled

sleepily at the sun.”

                                   ----Kenneth Koch

#panda #awakened heart #poetry #Kenneth Koch

[typewriter-worries]

In Love With You, Kenneth Koch

[ Text ID: Aren't my eyes bigger than love? / Isn't this history, and aren't we a couple of ruins? ]

#aren't we a couple of ruins? #kenneth koch #beat poetry #poetry #my upload #dark academia #light academia #classic academia #romantic academia #lovecore #literature #quotes

[dreaminginthedeepsouth]

[FPC Yearbook]

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TO MY TWENTIES By Kenneth Koch How lucky that I ran into you When everything was possible For my legs and arms, and with hope in my heart And so happy to see any woman— O woman! O my twentieth year! Basking in you, you Oasis from both growing and decay Fantastic unheard of nine- or ten-year oasis A palm tree, hey! And then another And another—and water! I’m still very impressed by you. Whither, Midst falling decades, have you gone? Oh in what lucky fellow, Unsure of himself, upset, and unemployable For the moment in any case, do you live now? From my window I drop a nickel By mistake. With You I race down to get it But I find there on The street instead, a good friend, X—N—, who says to me Kenneth do you have a minute? And I say yes! I am in my twenties! I have plenty of time! In you I marry, In you I first go to France; I make my best friends In you, and a few enemies. I Write a lot and am living all the time And thinking about living. I loved to frequent you After my teens and before my thirties. You three together in a bar I always preferred you because you were midmost Most lustrous apparently strongest Although now that I look back on you What part have you played? You never, ever, were stingy. What you gave me you gave whole But as for telling Me how to best use it You weren’t a genius at that. Twenties, my soul Is yours for the asking You know that, if you ever come back. *

#poem #poetry #FPC #20's #1970s #Kenneth Koch

[laazoteainfra]

Adiós, señor Koch

Kenneth Koch, durante años, dio clases de poesía a niños y niñas. Este es el poema que le dedicaron sus bellos alumnos cuando todo terminó. Aunque de manera oral, aquí se transcribe:

No te olvides de ir a los Alpes alemanes y de saludar a mi padre

Come mucho strudel de manzana en Alemania

A lo mejor puedes cavar un túnel para encontrar otro túnel por

donde se escapan los prisioneros de Berlín Este

Come todos los tipos de espaguetis italianos

Intenta hacer pizza

Come albóndigas matzah

Tira abajo la Torre Inclinada de Pisa

y será muy fácil: ya está inclinada

Ve a Nápoles a beber vino

y visita a Sibernus por mí

Puedes ir a rondar por Roma

y hacer que los leones del Coliseo se coman a alguien

O ir a una carrera de aurigas

Cómete el final del helado en Nápoles

Sé el tercer Colón

Toma clases de baile español

Ve a ver los toros en Madrid

pero no te desmayes

Cuando te elijan para ser el matador

huye a mil kilómetros de distancia

No comas enchiladas,

queman mucho

No te olvides de llevar bañador

y ten cuidado de no ahogarte,

queremos que vuelvas

Que no se te olvide tu idioma

Que no se te olvide abrocharte el abrigo hasta arriba

Mándanos un par de quesos suizos

No te rompas las piernas esquiando

Envíame un poco de nieve

dentro de un horno muy caliente

No montes en ninguna aerolínea israelí

No te encuentres con el Hombre Lobo

No trabajes para la Radium Dial Company

o pillarás leucemia

La señora B (como la llamaban) trabajó allí y tuvo leucemia

Déjate crecer el pelo y hazte Beatle, o cómprate una peluca

Tápate los oídos a las 12 si estás cerca del Big Ben

No mires a las chicas en minifalda (esto es una grabación)

Lleva un paraguas y un abrigo

Ve a ver a la reina Isabel y trae de vuelta algunas de sus joyas

Tráete a Charlie Chaplin

Pon limpiaparabrisas en tus gafas

Ve a visitar Camelot y róbale la corona al rey Arturo

y ve a visitar al estúpido del caballero rojo

y cásate con Ginebra

No te cruces con un policía inglés

Sube a la Torre de Londres pero no te caigas

Inglaterra se balancea como un péndulo

Cómprate un avión con las joyas y la corona

Hazte unas alas con plumas que hayas recogido y vuelve volando

Vuelve pronto para que no te secuestren

Vete nadando por el Canal de la Mancha y vuelve volando

Vete en barco y tómate pastillas para el mareo

(no te olvides de traer a Ginebra)

No te olvides de escribir

Bulla para contextualizar:

#kenneth koch #poesía #niños #lecciones #Youtube

[invisiblemotor]

It is serious not to know/ and to know/ and to try to figure things out/one’s legs cross/ foot swings and a cigarette is blooming /a grey bouquet/and the water is boiling/serious the birth/what a phenomenon of anything

#allegory of the cave #sukhasana #kenneth koch #boiling water #compassion #ice and snow #Youtube

[poleronenelhuerto]

Estética de sentirse bien - Kenneth Koch

Siéntete bien y ándate.

#poetry #art #poesía #traducción #traducciones #literatura #kenneth koch #sentirse bien

[emmykent]

#kenneth koch

[poetryroleplay]

From "The Art of Love" by Kenneth Koch

#kenneth koch #the art of love