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"I used to carry about with me a German map-case filled with poems."
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"Everyone thinks they're going to write one book of poems or one novel."

"Most victims of my autobiographical verse are either far too polite, remarkably understanding unaware that I have written poems about them."

"Indeed, I would venture to guess that Anon, who wrote so many poems without signing them, was often a woman."

"I consider my films to be poems that are all as personal as my writing and as hand-made."

"As a friendly one. I would still like to write concrete poems, but I can only do it sometimes."

"There must of course be a relationship between translating and making poems of your own, but what it is I just don't know."

"The title of the poems was The Only Bar in Dixon. We sent it out to The New Yorker on a fluke, and they took them and printed all three in the same issue."
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"I didn't for a moment doubt the choice, but if life is ever fearsome, it is truly fearsome then."

"I had to go to Sunday school once or twice in my life, and that's where I commented someplace on hearing."

"I didn't know what kind of jobs, because how was I prepared? At best, I would be an AB in English."

"Really, I didn't like Alaska. It rained, almost every day, at least 300 days out of the year."

"I'm only interested in fiction that in some way or other voices the very imagination which is conceiving it."

"When we lived in Juneau, Alaska, it was a town of about 7,000 people, and totally isolated; the only way to get to it was by ship."
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