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Dog Songs: Poems
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"Sadly not enjoying this collection so far.
Also, nearly half of the pages are blank. Some have nice dog illustrations, but the poems being printed on one side only, even if they’re two-page poems, is disappointing. I also don’t enjoy how she breaks up the lines and stanzas in some of these poems so far. Hoping the rest is better!"
Feb 22, 2026 06:52PM

 
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Frank O'Hara
“… and I’ll be happy here and happy there, full
of tea and tears”
Frank O'Hara, Lunch Poems
tags: poem

Frank O'Hara
“I am not a painter, I am a poet.
Why? I think I would rather be
a painter, but I am not. Well,

for instance, Mike Goldberg
is starting a painting. I drop in.
"Sit down and have a drink" he
says. I drink; we drink. I look
up. "You have SARDINES in it."
"Yes, it needed something there."
"Oh." I go and the days go by
and I drop in again. The painting
is going on, and I go, and the days
go by. I drop in. The painting is
finished. "Where's SARDINES?"
All that's left is just
letters, "It was too much," Mike says.

But me? One day I am thinking of
a color: orange. I write a line
about orange. Pretty soon it is a
whole page of words, not lines.
Then another page. There should be
so much more, not of orange, of
words, of how terrible orange is
and life. Days go by. It is even in
prose, I am a real poet. My poem
is finished and I haven't mentioned
orange yet. It's twelve poems, I call
it ORANGES. And one day in a gallery
I see Mike's painting, called SARDINES.”
Frank O'Hara

Nghi Vo
“When you love a thing too much, it is a special kind of pain to show it to others and to see that it is lacking.”
Nghi Vo, When the Tiger Came Down the Mountain

Yōko Ogawa
“I needed this eternal truth [...] I needed the sense that this invisible world was somehow propping up the visible one, that this one, true line extended infinitely, without width or area, confidently piercing through the shadows. Somehow, this line would help me find peace.”
Yōko Ogawa, The Housekeeper and the Professor

Genki Kawamura
“As you go on with your life, always remember the things that are good in you. They're your gifts. As long as you have these things, you'll find happiness, and you'll make the people around you happy.”
Genki Kawamura, 世界から猫が消えたなら [Sekai kara Neko ga Kietanara]

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