"It may be that poetry makes life's nebulous events tangible to me and restores their detail; or conversely, that poetry brings forth the intangible quality of incidents which are all too concrete and circumstantial. Or each on specific occasions, or both all the time."

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Source : Frank O'Hara (1995). “The Collected Poems of Frank O'Hara”, p.500, Univ of California Press

Frank O'Hara

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“I'm not ashamed to say that I cried at an animation movie”

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“There's a saying within the Asperger community: if you've met one person with Asperger's syndrome, you've met one person with Asperger's syndrome ... Within this condition, beneath this label, the variety of personality, of humor, of behavior, is infinite.”
“My responsibility is always and everywhere the same: to see in my brother more even than the personality and manhood that are his. My task is always and everywhere the same: to see Christ himself.”
“What I love about theatre is that it disappears as it happens.”
“I don't really believe in pretending to be happy when you're not. Mostly I believe that you should burden your friends with your problems.”
“I kept on trying to use so many media and ideas in my work because our horizon is so vast and Indian culture is so rich that I think what we are today, culturally, we have a unique position and I don't think one lifetime is enough to encompass it.”
“One can no more keep the mind from returning to an idea than the sea from returning to a shore. For a sailor, this is called the tide; in the case of the guilty it is called remorse. God stirs up the soul as well as the ocean.”
“I think nobody can explain why some people win and why some people lose. It really doesn't always have to do much with talent. It has to do with how you deal with pressure.”

Source : "A Look At The Cult Of Tim Tebow". "All Things Considered" with Guy Raz, www.npr.org. November 28, 2011.

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