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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'm such a girl for the living room. I really like to stay in my nest and not move. I travel in my mind, and that that's a rigorous state of journeying for me. My body isn't that interested in moving from place to place."
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"Uncontrolled, the hunger and thirst after God may become an obstacle, cutting off the soul from what it desires. If a man would travel far along the mystic road, he must learn to desire God intensely but in stillness, passively and yet with all his heart and mind and strength."
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"Of all possible debauches, traveling is the greatest that I know; that's the one they invented when they got tired of all the others."
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"I travel not only for the passion and madness and desire of movement, but because travel, like bread and water and air, becomes necessary to a life fully dreamed and lived."
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"London is a riddle. Paris is an explanation."
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"Queequeg was a native of Kokovoko, an island far away to the West and South. It is not down in any map; true places never are."
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"In moments of great uncertainty on my travels, I have always felt that something is protecting me, that I will come to no harm."
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"Our deeds still travel with us from afar, and what we have been makes us what we are."
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"Before he sets out the traveller must possess fixed interests and facilities to be served by travel. If he drifted aimlessly from country to country he would not travel but only wander ramble as a tramp. The traveller must be somebody and come from somewhere so his definite character and moral traditions may supply an organ and a point of comparison for his observations."
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"Men from the mountains always dream of the sea, and above all things I love to travel."
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"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
"I never thought of myself as a New York poet or as an American poet."
Thought
"It takes a long time to publish a book."
Time
"It's a well known thing that ordinary perceptions can have a strange aspect when one is travelling."
Travel
"As I look over my work, I mean every time I look over my early work, I see, yes, I could do that then and then I could do that and that... That may be the hardest thing for a writer, at least for a poet, to tell what the identity of his work is."
Time
"Maybe there are three or four really good poets in a generation."
Poet
"I certainly have the feeling that I'm the same person even though I've changed a great deal."
Emotional
"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
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