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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."
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Source : Frank O'Hara (1995). “The Collected Poems of Frank O'Hara”, p.261, Univ of California Press
Frank O'Hara
#Thinking Quotes
#Poetry Quotes
#Poet Quotes
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“Ambition that centers on the glory of God and welfare of the church is a mighty force for good.”
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“Democracy, like the human organism, carries within it the seed of its own destruction.”
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“Paper money has had the effect in your state that it will ever have, to ruin commerce, oppress the honest, and open the door to every species of fraud and injustice.”
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“There are two great days in a person's life - the day we are born and the day we discover why.”
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“You lost your wife, Douglas. My heartbreaks for you, it really does. But I lose my husband every day, all over again. And I don’t even get to mourn.”
Source : Jonathan Tropper (2007). “How to Talk to a Widower”, p.113, Bantam
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“Live life as though nobody is watching, and express yourself as though everyone is listening.”
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“The plague of gold strikes far and near.”
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“I worry about the entire structure of American democracy under Trump.”
Source : Source: www.macleans.ca