"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."
-Kenneth Koch
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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 wonder if I ever thought of an ideal reader... I guess when I was in my 20s and in New York and maybe even in my early 30s, I would write for my wife Janice... mainly for my poet friends and my wife, who was very smart about poetry."
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"I was excited by what my painter friends were doing, and they seemed to be interested in our poetry too, and that was a wonderful little, fizzy sort of world."
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"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."
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"As for political poetry, as it's usually defined, it seems there's very little good political poetry."
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"Certainly, it seems true enough that there's a good deal of irony in the world... I mean, if you live in a world full of politicians and advertising, there's obviously a lot of deception."
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"There's no need to travel further. The Los Angeles area is big enough for us."
-Marvin Davis
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"Everything has been homogenized. Over time, with television and jet travel, everybody has blended together. Some of our wonderful charm has been lost."
-Bruce Paltrow
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"Soul travel can be a general expansion of awareness and knowingness or conscious experience of the heavenly worlds."
-Bob Hayes
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"I travel the world, and I'm happy to say that America is still the great melting pot - maybe a chunky stew rather than a melting pot at this point, but you know what I mean."
-Philip Glass
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"I think space will be conquered through the mind rather than the clumsy medium of space travel."
-Patrick Troughton
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"Traveling is my form of self-education. Every stream I fish now is not as good as it used to be. Traveling is my form of self-education. Every stream I fish now is not as good as it used to be. If you keep your eyes open as you travel around, you realize we are destroying this planet."
-Yvon Chouinard
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