““I want to write because I have the urge to excel in one medium of translation and expression of life. I can't be satisfied with the colossal job of merely living. Oh, no, I must order life in sonnets and sestinas and provide a verbal reflector for my 60-watt lighted head. Love is an illusion, but I would willingly fall for it if I could believe in it. Now everything seems either far and sad and cold, like a piece of shale at the bottom of a canyon - or warm and near and unthinking, like the pink dogwood.””
![“I have, for my own projected works and ideas, only the silliest and dewiest of hopes; no matter what, I am romantic enough or sentimental enough to wish to contribute something to life’s fabric, to the world’s beauty… [S]imply to live does not justify existence, for life is a mere gesture on the…” quote by Frank O'Hara](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/fe1/frank-o-hara-6706_beautiful_i-have-for-my-own-projected-works-and-id_2863598.jpg)
