"I never thought of myself as a New York poet or as an American poet."

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"I never thought of myself as a New York poet or as an American poet."

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"When you finish a poem, it clicks shut like the top of a jewel box, but prose is endless. I haven't experienced an awful lot of clicking shut!"

Writing, Prose

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

Emotional, Feeling

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

Travel,

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

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

Work,

"I never thought of myself as a New York poet or as an American poet."

Thought,

"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."

Love, Peace, War, Music

"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."

Poetry, People, Painting

"Some of the French surrealists at the beginning of the war had come over to New York and they brought out this magazine. It was a big, glossy magazine full of surrealist things."

War, Beginning

"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, Mother, Being, Literary

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"When you take action-think.When you fail-think.When you are in doubt-think.When you have lost your way-think.You are nothing but your thoughts."

Debasish Mridha, American Author

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"Wherever your thoughts and beliefs can take you, you can go there."

Debasish Mridha, American Author

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"Give thy thoughts no tongue."

William Shakespeare, English Dramatist

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"Heresy is another word for freedom of thought."

Graham Greene, British Playwright

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"Each "way of thinking" has its own shape and color, which wax and wane like the moon."

Haruki Murakami, Japanese Writer

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"The only way to make a great thought great is to share it."

Toni Sorenson, American Author

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"Language is the dress of thought."

Samuel Johnson, English Author

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"How can the thoughts be stopped? Tell the thoughts, 'You take care of your own issues; I am not on your side.' That way you will sit on God's side."

Dada Bhagwan, Indian Spiritual Leader

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"Of course, in our train of thought, we would all like to think we're on the right track, or at least the same railroad company as the right track."

Criss Jami, American Philosopher

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"All thought is naught but a footnote to Plato."

George Santayana, American Philosopher

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