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"Well, I had this little notion - I started writing when I was eleven, writing poetry. I was passionately addicted to it; it was my great refuge through adolescence."
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"A poet often lives in an enchanted land where he sees things not with his eyes but with his feelings."
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"Poetry and consumption are the most flattering of diseases."
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"I grew up in this town, my poetry was born between the hill and the river, it took its voice from the rain, and like the timber, it steeped itself in the forests."
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"Sometimes poets expect me to think far deeper than I'm willing to dig."
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"He cleared his throat and held up one hand dramatically."Green grass breaks through snow. Artemis pleads for my help. He grinned at us, waiting for applause. "That last line was four syllables. Artemis said. Apollo frowned. "Was it? "No, no, that's six syllable, hhhm. He started muttering to himself. That's five syllables! He bowed, looking very pleased with himself."
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"Poetry is the revelation of a feeling that the poet believes to be interior and personal which the reader recognizes as his own."
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"Don't you just love poetry that gives you a crinkly feeling up and down your back?"
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"Writing poems is simply an excuse to remember You."
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"It is the best of all trades, to make songs, and the second best to sing them."
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"Only a seer or a lover would know that I'm making a jewelry of words for you -drawn from your essence -to flash and burn with your fire -so you can bedazzle with your own light ..."
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"Well, my relationship to America at the time I left was very limited."
Time
"My idea was to go to Vienna to study conducting and perhaps play in an orchestra first, so I thought before I got to Vienna I could do with a little training in Paris."
Thought
"I thought Cheever was magnificent and that if I could write like him that would be the best I could do. And then I realized that what I really wanted to write had nothing to do with what he was doing."
Thought
"When Niki and I moved to Paris, there was also the challenge of Paris, an extremely daunting city."
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"My Life in CIA is the first time that I've ever written a story in my own name."
Life
"I graduated in 1952 and went to Europe, with Niki and our first child Laura, who was then a year old."
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"My mother could never understand why I didn't write a thriller, which I've finally done."
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"I think situations are more important than plot and character."
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"I also had this mistaken dream, fantasy really - perhaps because I'm good at languages - of being able in both Italy and France to become someone else through my fluency in the language."
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"I'd been brought up on the Upper East Side in a WASP society, which was death on crutches."
Death
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