"One need never leave the confines of New York to get all the greenery one wishes--I can't even enjoy a blade of grass unless I know there's a subway handy, or a record store or some other sign that people do not totally regret life."
-Frank O'Hara, Meditations in an Emergency
"I praise the Frenchman, his remark was shrewd,
How sweet, how passing sweet is solitude!
But grant me still a friend in my retreat,
Whom I may whisper, Solitude is sweet."
-William Cowper*, Retirement
*Not the bovine sounding surname it appears: Cowper's last name rhymes with blooper.
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