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"I used to carry about with me a German map-case filled with poems."
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"I didn't think about whether I was writing poems. I was thinking. And the more I was thinking, the more there was I didn't understand."
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"I like Beethoven, especially the poems."
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"I tend to like poems that engage me - that is to say, which do not bore me."
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"By reason of weird translation, many such sets of instructions read like poems anyhow."
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"Most victims of my autobiographical verse are either far too polite, remarkably understanding unaware that I have written poems about them."
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"Why does one always ask a writer why they stopped? I am sure everyone finds in any drawer a few dear poems."
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"Each word bears its weight, so you have to read my poems quite slowly."
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"I like poems you can tack all over with a hammer and there are no hollow places."
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"I was very committed to the process of composing, working at poems, putting things together and taking them apart like some kind of experimental filmmaker."
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"I have also written some poems which have not been collected in a volume."
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"I want prose fiction to be recognized as that, and I'm not interested in writing as it becomes more personal."
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"My father's parents were Irish. Only a year before my father died, he and I went back to Ireland for a week to look at the old homestead."
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"I remember my mother finding mud somehow and putting it on the sting."
Family
"On the night before we were married, all of the anxiety in the world came down upon me."
Marriage
"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."
People
"I didn't know what kind of jobs, because how was I prepared? At best, I would be an AB in English."
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"My mother wanted very much to play tennis; she wanted, most of all, to be a singer and play the piano."
Family
"Really, I didn't like Alaska. It rained, almost every day, at least 300 days out of the year."
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"I had to go to Sunday school once or twice in my life, and that's where I commented someplace on hearing."
Life
"I do not feel an exile from America in any sense."
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