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It's very important to write things down instantly, or you can lose the way you were thinking out a line. I have a rule that if I wake up at 3 in the morning and think of something, I write it down. I can't wait until morning - it'll be gone.

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Writers sometimes give up what is most strange and wonderful about their writing - soften their roughest edges - to accommodate themselves toward a group response.

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I have a notion that if you are going to be spiritually curious, you better not get cluttered up with too many material things.

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I'm one of the cliches that has grown up.

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Fact is based upon vulgar matter.

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The heroes of the present will retreat to the imitation they are anyhow.

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I was playing catch with the European audience.

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I'm trying to climb up both walls at once.

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I sound like Homer. I mean Winslow Homer.

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We all want what's been suddenly disallowed.

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There is a grace of life which is still yours, my dear Europe.

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I remember way back when I was young, 10 years ago.

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I don't live for poetry. I live far more than anybody else does.

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I defer to all these other American poets who, for some reason, I both envy and admire.

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I hope you're representing the devil's advocate.

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We're all moving, moving, moving. Isn't it nice?

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I'm sorry, but I was born with a towel on my head.

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You can read everybody. It's not even interesting to tell the truth because to some extent it's false.

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This country has been unconscious, and it's got to awake. That's my belief.

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I am happy to have some friends here in the kitchen.

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