We consider large time behavior of typical paths under the Anderson polymer measure. If P x κ is the measure induced by rate κ, simple, symmetric random walk on Z d started at x, this measure is defined aswhere {W x : x ∈ Z d } is a field of iid standard, one-dimensional Brownian motions, β > 0, κ > 0 and Z κ,β,t (x) the normalizing constant. We establish that the polymer measure gives a macroscopic mass to a small neighborhood of a typical path as T → ∞, for parameter values outside the perturbative regime of the random walk, giving a pathwise approach to polymer localization, in contrast with existing results. The localization becomes complete as β 2 κ → ∞ in the sense that the mass grows to 1. The proof makes use of the overlap between two independent samples drawn under the Gibbs measure µ x κ,β,T , which can be estimated by the integration by parts formula for the Gaussian environment. Conditioning this measure on the number of jumps, we obtain a canonical measure which already shows scaling properties, thermodynamic limits, and decoupling of the parameters.