Frank O'Hara (1926–1966) American poet, art critic and writer
Why I Am Not a Painter (l. 24-28) (1976).
“The poem, even when it has some predetermined pattern, must be wrought to some effect or finish that justifies the exclamation: This is a poem!”
What is a Poem - Endword - Selected Poems (1926)
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