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"It's a well known thing that ordinary perceptions can have a strange aspect when one is travelling."
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"I have found out that there ain't no surer way to find out whether you like people or hate them than to travel with them."

"The study of maps and the perusal of travel books aroused in me a secret fascination that was at times almost irresistible."

"Travel doesn't become adventure until you leave yourself behind."

"Travel is the frivolous part of serious lives, and the serious part of frivolous ones."
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"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."

"I was excited by what my painter friends were doing, and they seemed to be interested in our poetry too, and that was a wonderful little, fizzy sort of world."

"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."

"I certainly have the feeling that I'm the same person even though I've changed a great deal."

"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."

"As for political poetry, as it's usually defined, it seems there's very little good political poetry."

"The subject matter of the stories on the surface... there seem to be a number of stories about travel."
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