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"The subject matter of the stories on the surface... there seem to be a number of stories about travel."
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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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"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."
"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."
"Politics is there the way men and women are there, the way the Atlantic Ocean is there. Sometimes I've written about politics specifically, I mean about politics as it's understood on television and in newspapers."
"It's a well known thing that ordinary perceptions can have a strange aspect when one is travelling."
"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!"
"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."
"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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