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Kenneth Koch

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

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Amber Hurdle

"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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Amber Hurdle

"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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Amber Hurdle

"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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Amber Hurdle

"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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Amber Hurdle

"London is a riddle. Paris is an explanation."

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Amber Hurdle

"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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Amber Hurdle

"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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Amber Hurdle

"Our deeds still travel with us from afar, and what we have been makes us what we are."

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Amber Hurdle

"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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Amber Hurdle

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

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

Being

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

Influence

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Kenneth Koch
"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

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

Travel

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Kenneth Koch
"Once I start writing about something, it goes off rather fast, and sometimes details which might be interesting such as what the room looked like or what somebody said that was not exactly on the same subject tend to get lost."

Writing

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Kenneth Koch
"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."

People

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

Thought

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Kenneth Koch
"It takes a long time to publish a book."

Time

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Kenneth Koch
"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."

Man

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Kenneth Koch
"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

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