“I've got to get out of here. I choose a piece of shawl and my dirtiest suntans. I'll be back, I'll re-emerge, defeated, from the valley; you don't want me to go where you go, so I go where you don't want me to.”

—  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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