And don't worry about your lineage poetic or natural.

But it is good to be several floors up in the dead of night wondering whether you are any good or not and the only decision you can make is that you did it.

I have been to lots of parties and acted perfectly disgraceful but I never actually collapsed oh Lana Turner we love you get up

There were occasionally rifts in the cloud where the face of a woman appeared, frowning.

Too many poets act like a middle-aged mother trying to get her kids to eat too much cooked meat, and potatoes with drippings (tears). I don't give a damn whether they eat or not. Forced feeding leads to excessive thinness (effete). Nobody should experience anything they don't need to, if they don't need poetry bully for them. I like the movies too. And after all, only Whitman and Crane and Williams, of the American poets, are better than the movies.

Kerouac: You're ruining American poetry, O'Hara. O'Hara: That's more than you ever did for it, Kerouac

My heart is in my/ pocket. It is poems by Pierre Reverdy.