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"When Robert Frost was alive, I was known as the other new England poet, which is to be barely known at all."
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"The best of fiction, as we know, of course, doesn't tell the truth; it tales the truth."
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"Character in decay is the theme of the great bulk of superior fiction."
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"Stories are like children. They grow in their own way."
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"A book is a garden, an orchard, a storehouse, a party, a company by the way, a counselor, a multitude of counselors."
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"In great literature, I become a thousand different men but still remain myself."
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"It is my opinion that a story worth reading only in childhood is not worth reading even then."
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"She asserted that the best fictional detail was a chosen detail, not a remembered one - for fictional truth was not only the truth of observation, which was the truth of mere journalism. The best fictional detail was the detail that should have defined the character or the episode or the atmosphere. Fictional truth was what should have happened in a story - not necessarily what did happen or what had happened."
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"I found it hard to think of leaving my books. They had been my elevators out of the midden, and to whom could I entrust such close friends?"
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"It is usually unbearably painful to read a book by an author who knows way less than you do, unless the book is a novel."
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"Literature becomes the living memory of a nation."
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"When Robert Frost was alive, I was known as the other new England poet, which is to be barely known at all."
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"When I was starting to write, the great influence was T.S. Eliot and after that William Butler Yeats."
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"I would talk in iambic pentameter if it were easier."
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"I sometimes talk about the making of a poem within the poem."
Talk
"I liked the kid who wrote me that he had to do a term paper on a modern poet and he was doing me because, though they say you have to read poems twice, he found he could handle mine in one try."
Poems
"The historian is terribly responsible to what he can discern are the facts of the case, but he's nothing if he doesn't make out a case."
Fact
"I've thought of the last line of some poems for years and tried them out, It wouldn't work because the last line was much too beautiful for the poem."
Work
"When modern writers gave up telling stories, they gave up the greatest thing we had."
Literature
"I think there was a revolution in poetry, associated chiefly with Eliot and Pound; but maybe it is of the nature of revolutions or of the nature of history that their innovations should later come to look trivial or indistinguishable from technical tricks."
History
"Nothing in the universe can travel at the speed of light, they say, forgetful of the shadow's speed."
Travel
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