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"I certainly have the feeling that I'm the same person even though I've changed a great deal."
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"All violent feelings have the same effect. They produce in us a falseness in all our impressions of external things, which I would generally characterize as the pathetic fallacy."
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"Bitterness is a broken spirit."
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"I believe in unconditional love... I believe in dangerous unselfishness... I believe in daring to achieve... I believe in making mistakes... I believe in helping others... I believe in moving on... I believe in passionate romance... I believe in living the fullness of this human experience... I believe in ME..."
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"My job is usually to express emotion as freely as possible."
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"The breath of being is been able to share your bread."
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"The advantage of the emotions is that they lead us astray."
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"I am in that temper that if I were under water I would scarcely kick to come to the top."
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"You need to feel that the game is important to you. Lose that feeling and you lose your edge. There's no faking that kind of emotion. You can't invent the feeling. It's got to be natural, real."
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"The wish to lead out one's lover must be a tribal feeling; the wish to be seen as loved is part of one's self-respect."
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"Avarice is the vice of declining years."
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"As for political poetry, as it's usually defined, it seems there's very little good political poetry."
Poetry
"Picasso said once when being interviewed that one should not be one's own connoisseur."
Being
"I'm a writer who likes to be influenced."
Influence
"I got married, other people went off. We had sort of another public-we were our entire readership for many years, and we were very excited by each other."
People
"The subject matter of the stories on the surface... there seem to be a number of stories about travel."
Travel
"I certainly have the feeling that I'm the same person even though I've changed a great deal."
Emotional
"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."
Writing
"It's enormously cheering to get a good review by someone who seems to understand your work."
Work
"I've had trouble with criticism, I guess. It's hard to know what role criticism plays in either encouraging poets or in getting other people to read them."
People
"I never thought of myself as a New York poet or as an American poet."
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