→ Jan 2012 "I am mainly preoccupied with the world as I experience it… I don’t think of fame or posterity… nor do I care about clarifying experiences for anyone or bettering (other than accidentally) anyone’s state or social relation… What is happening to me, allowing for lies and exaggerations which I try to avoid, goes into my poems. I don’t think my experiences are clarified or made beautiful for myself or anyone else, they are just there in whatever form I can find them… 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." — Frank O’Hara