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Anybody doesn’t like these pitchers don’t like poetry, see? Anybody don’t like potry go home see television shots of big hatted cowboys being tolerated by kind horses. Robert Frank, Swiss, unobtrusive, nice, with that little camera that he raises and snaps with one hand he sucked a sad poem right out of America onto film, taking rank among the poets of the world. To Robert Frank I now give this message: You got eyes.

Jack Kerouac

#poetry #film #eye

..with one hand he sucked a sad poem right out of America onto film.

Jack Kerouac

in the intro to Robert Frank's The Americans.

To Robert Frank now I give this message: you got eyes.

Jack Kerouac

(in Introduction to) “The Americans” by Robert Frank, An Aperture Book, Grossman Publishers, New York 1969

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