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This volume includes a selection of O'Hara's works, showcasing his unique style and contributions to the American poetry scene.
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“And don't worry about your lineage poetic or natural.”
“O my enormous piano, you are not like being outdoors”
“I am not a painter. I am a poet. / Why? I think I would rather be / a painter, but I am not.”
“If you don't appear at all one day they think you're lazy or dead.”
“There should be so much more, not of orange, of words, of how terrible orange is and life.”
“I am the least difficult of men. All I want is boundless love.”
“and I have mastered the speed and strength which is the armor of the world.”
“The stars fell one by one into his eyes and burnt.”
“There were occasionally rifts in the cloud where the face of a woman appeared, frowning.”
“I embraced a cloud but when I soared it rained.”
“I'm becoming the street. Who are you in love with? me? Straight against the light I cross.”
“Grace / to be born and live as variously as possible”
“I love you. I love you, but I’m turning to my verses and my heart is closing like a fist.”
“See how free we are! as a nation of persons.”
“The artificial is always innocent.”
“I don't think I want to win anything I think I want to die unadorned.”
“I am ashamed of my century, but I have to smile.”