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Because as long as we focus on the romance of the supplies, we don’t have to write a damn thing until we find the perfect notebook.
— The Weight of a Good Notebook « The Bygone BureauI tend to be a subscriber to the idea that you have everything you need by the time you’re 12 years old to do interesting writing for most of the rest of your life…”
— Bruce Springsteen, interviewed by Nick Hornby
Frank O’Hara - “Having a Coke with You”
As Brian reminded us a while back, the title of Frank O’Hara’s book, Lunch Poems, came from the fact that he wrote much of his wonderful, breezy verse while on his lunch break while working at MoMA.
Like William Carlos Williams, Richard Hugo, and countless other of my favorite poets, some of O’Hara’s finest work was written when such writing was not his job.
Full text: Having a Coke with You by Frank O’Hara : Poetry Foundation
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