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"I'm a writer who likes to be influenced."
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"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!"
Writing
"I certainly have the feeling that I'm the same person even though I've changed a great deal."
Emotional
"The subject matter of the stories on the surface... there seem to be a number of stories about travel."
Travel
"Picasso said once when being interviewed that one should not be one's own connoisseur."
Being
"It's enormously cheering to get a good review by someone who seems to understand your work."
Work
"I love painting and music, of course. I don't know nearly as much about them as I know about poetry. I've certainly been influenced by fiction. I was overwhelmed by War and Peace when I read it, and I didn't read it until I was in my late 20s."
Love
"I was influenced by surrealist poetry and painting as were thousands of other people, and it seems to me to have become a part of the way I write, but it's not."
Poetry
"Some of the French surrealists at the beginning of the war had come over to New York and they brought out this magazine. It was a big, glossy magazine full of surrealist things."
War
"I was born in Cincinnati, Ohio. My family was not nationally known as being a literary family, though my mother and my mother's side of the family in general were interested in literature."
Family
"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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"You win minds through your brilliance. You win hearts through your tenderness. You win souls through your benevolence."
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"A good word will spread in the grapevine, bringing forth clusters of grapes and the benevolent of wine; a bad word will spread withering the vines, and choke the potential grapes."
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"Spend your time with the people who talk about the stars because to whichever place you put your mind in, you will move to that place! Stars pull you to the stars; mud pulls you to the mud!"
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"What you do teaches faster, and has a lasting impression, far beyond what you say."
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"He who illumines one has begun illumining the world."
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"Everything I touch makes me a little bit more like the thing I'm touching, so I'd better start paying attention to what I'm touching."
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"When the wind likes a path, the weeds around that path will tremble all day long!"
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"If you are a follower of Jesus Christ , then the world around you will also be subdued."
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"To get fruits from the tree branches, shake them with hands; to get fruits from men, shake them with clever ideas!"
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"If you submit to your gift, you will become known and influential."
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