“My eyes are vague blue, like the sky, and change all the time; they are indiscriminate but fleeting, entirely specific and disloyal, so that no one trusts me. I am always looking away. Or again at something after it has given me up.”

—  Frank O'Hara , book Meditations in an Emergency (book)

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American poet, art critic and writer 1926–1966

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