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"I used to carry about with me a German map-case filled with poems."
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"I would not say I chose to write long poems on a conscious level. The long poem has been a relative constant."
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"Almost anything is too much. I am trying in my poems to have the reader be the experiencer. I do not want to be there. It is not even a walk we take together."
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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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"I was writing notes, but not composing poems. The Hunter began to develop out of this fragmented process."
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"I used to carry about with me a German map-case filled with poems."
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"The notes I have made are not a diary in the ordinary sense, but partly lengthy records of my spiritual experiences, and partly poems in prose."
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"I sometimes like to tinker with poems that have failed, ones that I have sent aside. Even years afterward, I will revisit them if there is something about them that I cannot give up on."
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"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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"There must of course be a relationship between translating and making poems of your own, but what it is I just don't know."
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"The reason one writes poems is so that your poem will be remembered."
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"I'm only interested in fiction that in some way or other voices the very imagination which is conceiving it."
Imagination
"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 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
"My mother wanted very much to play tennis; she wanted, most of all, to be a singer and play the piano."
Family
"I do not feel an exile from America in any sense."
Patriotism
"When I started writing fiction, I knew how good it was immediately."
Fiction
"I used to carry about with me a German map-case filled with poems."
Poems
"To be anywhere near an enormous ocean liner when you are just like a fish in the water is frightening."
Danger
"I didn't for a moment doubt the choice, but if life is ever fearsome, it is truly fearsome then."
Life
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