"Picasso said once when being interviewed that one should not be one's own connoisseur."

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"Picasso said once when being interviewed that one should not be one's own connoisseur."

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"Don't bother about being modern. Unfortunately it is the one thing that, whatever you do, you cannot avoid."

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"If nothing else, we simply get used to being alive."

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"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."

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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."

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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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"Picasso said once when being interviewed that one should not be one's own connoisseur."

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"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."

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"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."

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"It's enormously cheering to get a good review by someone who seems to understand your work."

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"I'm a writer who likes to be influenced."

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"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."

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"Maybe there are three or four really good poets in a generation."

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