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“Love is not gentle,
like the dust of a room;
love is a thing that happens
in a room, and becomes dust.”
―
like the dust of a room;
love is a thing that happens
in a room, and becomes dust.”
―
“I look
at you and I would rather look at you than all the portraits in the world”
― The Collected Poems of Frank O'Hara
at you and I would rather look at you than all the portraits in the world”
― The Collected Poems of Frank O'Hara
“Oh to be an angel (if there were any!), and go
straight up into the sky and look around and then
come down
not to be covered with steel and aluminum
glaringly ugly in the pure distances and clattering and
buckling, wheezing
but to be part of the treetops and the blueness, invisible,
the iridescent darknesses beyond,
silent, listening to
the air becoming no air becoming air again”
― Lunch Poems
straight up into the sky and look around and then
come down
not to be covered with steel and aluminum
glaringly ugly in the pure distances and clattering and
buckling, wheezing
but to be part of the treetops and the blueness, invisible,
the iridescent darknesses beyond,
silent, listening to
the air becoming no air becoming air again”
― Lunch Poems
“He was my friend in everyday life and now I have lost his affection, which was part of my daily bread. No one will be able to give me what he has taken with him, because his active brotherly spirit was one of my life’s treasured luxuries.”
― The Complete Memoirs
― The Complete Memoirs
“But here is where the gods are, speculating, bemused.”
― Meditations in an Emergency
― Meditations in an Emergency
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