Frank O'Hara Quotes
Frank O'Hara Quotes
I am the least difficult of men. All I want is boundless love.
4448 When I die, don't come, I wouldn't want a leaf
to turn away from the sun - it loves it there.
There's nothing so spiritual about being happy
but you can't miss a day of it, because it doesn't last.
2572 My eyes are vague blue, like the sky, and change all the time; they are indiscriminate but fleeting, entirely specific and disloyal, so that no one trusts me. I am always looking away. Or again at something after it has given me up.
1806 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. It's more important to confirm the least sincere. The clouds get enough attention as it is...
1924 Kerouac: You're ruining American poetry, O'Hara.
O'Hara: That's more than you ever did for it, Kerouac
1041 I am ashamed of my century, but I have to smile.
3117 That's not a run in your stocking, it's a hand on your leg.
3078 Oh! kangaroos, sequins, chocolate sodas! / You really are beautiful! Pearls, / harmonicas, jujubes, aspirins!
1207 ...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...
1052 I have been to lots of parties
and acted perfectly disgraceful
but I never actually collapsed
oh Lana Turner we love you get up
4007 You just go on your nerve.
2123 I wouldn’t want to be faster
or greener than now if you were with me O you
were the best of all my days!
1505 And
always embrace things, people earth
sky stars, as I do, freely and with
the appropriate sense of space.
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