My next project is to get back to that. Actually, to learn how to write poetry. I'm not kidding.
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When Niki and I moved to Paris, there was also the challenge of Paris, an extremely daunting city.
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I graduated in 1952 and went to Europe, with Niki and our first child Laura, who was then a year old.
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What I said about John was that he liberated me from my anxieties about writing in a correct, acceptable way.
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I was immediately smitten with an attraction to this culture, not in the sense of high culture but of the basic way people behaved towards one another.
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I was stationed in Norfolk, Virginia, for a while, about which the less said the better, and then I was in the Mediterranean, about which the more said the better.
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Well, I had this little notion - I started writing when I was eleven, writing poetry. I was passionately addicted to it; it was my great refuge through adolescence.
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My idea was to go to Vienna to study conducting and perhaps play in an orchestra first, so I thought before I got to Vienna I could do with a little training in Paris.
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My dream, I remember, when I went to boarding school, was to have a study all my own, a little nook someplace where nobody could get at me - nobody, like the football coach.
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I also had this mistaken dream, fantasy really - perhaps because I'm good at languages - of being able in both Italy and France to become someone else through my fluency in the language.
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