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"Well, I'm a light traveller. I chuck things away."
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"For sale: baby shoes, never worn."
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"Lives based on having are less free than lives based either on doing or on being."
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"I do believe in simplicity. It is astonishing as well as sad, how many trivial affairs even the wisest thinks he must attend to in a day; how singular an affair he thinks he must omit. When the mathematician would solve a difficult problem, he first frees the equation of all incumbrances, and reduces it to its simplest terms. So simplify the problem of life, distinguish the necessary and the real. Probe the earth to see where your main roots run."
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"The less you need, the more you live."
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"Progress is discovering what you can do without."
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"How many things can I do without?"
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"Well, I'm a light traveller. I chuck things away."
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"I'd begun at the soundless place where California touches Mexico with five Gatorade bottles full of water and eleven pounds of gear and lots of candy. My backpack was tiny, no bigger than a schoolgirl's knapsack. Everything I carried was everything I had."
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"Generally, people need less than a quarter of what they want."
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"I've always felt that your belongings have never been on a level with you."
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"But I hang on to books. I love them. I even think they're very nice decor in a room - far better than paintings... That's not quite true!"
Love
"When I was asked to be Writer in Residence at Edinburgh I thought, you can't teach poetry. This is ridiculous."
Poetry
"I'm very gregarious, but I love being in the hills on my own."
Love
"When I go fishing I like to know that there's nobody within five miles of me."
Solitude
"In fact a lot of them I think are absolute baloney. Those Charles Olsens and people like that. At first I was interested in seeing what they were up to, what they were doing, why they were doing it. They never moved me in the way that one is moved by true poetry."
Poetry
"Well, I'm a light traveller. I chuck things away."
Minimalism
"I don't think of myself all the time."
Time
"It's like breathing in and out to me. It's like having a conversation with someone who isn't there. Because it has to be addressed to somebody - not a particular person, or very rarely."
Conversation
"I said I have no powers of invention. Well, I also have no powers of mimicry."
Film
"When I talk of hearing a poet's voice speaking, I always think of it as in the presence of the man."
Poetry
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