I don't like to see things on purpose. I like them to soak in. A friend ... asked me to go to the top of the Empire State Building once, and I told him that he shouldn't treat New York as a sightit's feeling, an emotional experience. And the same with every place else. (Robert Frost)

I don't like to see things on purpose. I like them to soak in. A friend ... asked me to go to the top of the Empire State Building once, and I told him that he shouldn't treat New York as a sightit's feeling, an emotional experience. And the same with every place else.

Robert Frost

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