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Frank O'Hara quotes: Dear:I am dyingwithout you, and I won't be dying long. But don't come.Best always,Frank

Dear:

I am dying
without you, and I won't be dying long. But don't come.

Best always,
Frank

Frank O'Hara quotes: The beauty of America, neither cool jazz nor devoured Egyptianheroes, lies inlives in the darkness I inhabit in the midst of sterile millions

The beauty of America, neither cool jazz nor devoured Egyptian
heroes, lies in
lives in the darkness I inhabit in the midst of sterile millions

Frank O'Hara quotes: I callto the spirits of other lands to make fecund my existence

I call
to the spirits of other lands to make fecund my existence

Frank O'Hara quotes: I am always tying upand then deciding to depart.

I am always tying up
and then deciding to depart.

Frank O'Hara quotes: And I have mastered the speed and strength which is thearmor of the world.

And I have mastered the speed and strength which is the
armor of the world.

Frank O'Hara quotes: I am stuck in traffic in a taxicabwhich is typicaland not just of modern life

I am stuck in traffic in a taxicab
which is typical
and not just of modern life

Frank O'Hara quotes: I'm so damned literaryand at the same time the waters rushing past remindme of nothingI'm so damn empty

I'm so damned literary
and at the same time the waters rushing past remind
me of nothing
I'm so damn empty

Frank O'Hara quotes: Oh! kangaroos, sequins, chocolate sodas! / You really are beautiful! Pearls, / harmonicas, jujubes, aspirins!

Oh! kangaroos, sequins, chocolate sodas! / You really are beautiful! Pearls, / harmonicas, jujubes, aspirins!

Frank O'Hara quotes: The only truth is face to face, the poem whose words become yourmouthand dying in black and white we fight for what we love, not are

The only truth is face to face, the poem whose words become your
mouth
and dying in black and white we fight for what we love, not are

Frank O'Hara quotes: Oh Lana Turner we love you get up

Oh Lana Turner we love you get up

Frank O'Hara quotes: I can't even find a pond small enoughto drown in without being ostentatious

I can't even find a pond small enough
to drown in without being ostentatious

Frank O'Hara quotes: The poem is at last between two persons instead of two pages. In all modesty, I confess that it may be the death of literature as we know it.

The poem is at last between two persons instead of two pages. In all modesty, I confess that it may be the death of literature as we know it.

Frank O'Hara quotes: O my enormous piano, you are not like being outdoors

O my enormous piano, you are not like being outdoors

Frank O'Hara quotes: When you are the onlypassenger if there is aplace further from meI beg you do not go

When you are the only
passenger if there is a
place further from me
I beg you do not go

Frank O'Hara quotes: I seem to be defying fate, or am I avoiding it?

I seem to be defying fate, or am I avoiding it?

Frank O'Hara quotes: They were too young then to know what they would ultimately need from a barren and heart-sore life ...

They were too young then to know what they would ultimately need from a barren and heart-sore life ...

Frank O'Hara quotes: I embraced a cloud,but when I soaredit rained.

I embraced a cloud,
but when I soared
it rained.

Frank O'Hara quotes: I am ashamed of my century, but I have to smile.

I am ashamed of my century, but I have to smile.

Frank O'Hara quotes: Life perpetuated in parti-colored loves and beautiful lies all in different languages.

Life perpetuated in parti-colored loves
and beautiful lies all in different languages.

Frank O'Hara quotes: Grace / to be born and live as variously as possible

Grace / to be born and live as variously as possible

Frank O'Hara quotes: And don't worry about your lineage poetic or natural.

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

Frank O'Hara quotes: WhenI think of all the things I've been thinking ofI feel insane

When
I think of all the things I've been thinking of
I feel insane

Frank O'Hara quotes: The moon passes into cloudsso hurt by the street lightsof your glance oh my heart

The moon passes into clouds
so hurt by the street lights
of your glance oh my heart

Frank O'Hara quotes: I dislike a great deal of contemporary poetry - all of the past you read is usually quite great - but it is a useful thorn to have in one's

I dislike a great deal of contemporary poetry - all of the past you read is usually quite great - but it is a useful thorn to have in one's side.

Frank O'Hara quotes: To be cool, decisive, precise, yes,while the barn door hits you in the face

To be cool,
decisive,
precise,
yes,
while the barn door hits you in the face

Frank O'Hara quotes: In times of crisis, we must all decide again and again whom we love.

In times of crisis, we must all decide again and again whom we love.

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

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

Frank O'Hara quotes: I don't think I want to win anything I think I want to die unadorned.

I don't think I want to win anything I think I want to die unadorned.

Frank O'Hara quotes: There is a geography which holds its hands just so far from the breast and pushes you away, crying so.

There is a geography which holds its hands just so far from the breast and pushes you away, crying so.

Frank O'Hara quotes: ... and I'll be happy here and happy there, fullof tea and tears

... and I'll be happy here and happy there, full
of tea and tears

Frank O'Hara quotes: I am the least difficult of men. All I want is boundless love.

I am the least difficult of men. All I want is boundless love.

Frank O'Hara quotes: A man was the cause of it.An unarmed man with a weapon.

A man was the cause of it.
An unarmed man with a weapon.

Frank O'Hara quotes: 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!

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!

Frank O'Hara quotes: I am moved by the multitudes of your intelligence and sometimes, returning, I become the sea - in love with your speed, your heaviness and breath.

I am moved by the multitudes of your intelligence and sometimes, returning, I become the sea - in love with your speed, your heaviness and breath.

Frank O'Hara quotes: See how free we are! as a nation of persons.

See how free we are! as a nation of persons.

Frank O'Hara quotes: The artificial is always innocent.

The artificial is always innocent.

Frank O'Hara quotes: And always embrace things, people earth sky stars, as I do, freely and with the appropriate sense of space.

And always embrace things, people earth sky stars, as I do, freely and with the appropriate sense of space.

Frank O'Hara quotes: I am not a painter. I am a poet. / Why? I think I would rather be / a painter, but I am not.

I am not a painter. I am a poet. / Why? I think I would rather be / a painter, but I am not.

Frank O'Hara quotes: The stars fell one by one into his eyes and burnt.

The stars fell one by one into his eyes and burnt.

Frank O'Hara quotes: There's too much lime in the world and not enough gin

There's too much lime in the world and not enough gin

Frank O'Hara quotes: I'm becomingthe street.Who are you in love with?me? Straight against the light I cross.

I'm becoming
the street.
Who are you in love with?
me?
Straight against the light I cross.

Frank O'Hara quotes: Oh god it's wonderful to get out of bed and drink too much coffee and smoke too many cigarettes and love you so much

Oh god it's wonderful
to get out of bed
and drink too much coffee
and smoke too many cigarettes
and love you so much

Frank O'Hara quotes: There were occasionallyrifts in the cloud where the faceof a woman appeared, frowning.

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

Frank O'Hara quotes: Destroy yourself, if you don't know!

Destroy yourself, if you don't know!

Frank O'Hara quotes: Stars are out and there is seaenough beneath the glistening earthto bear me toward the futurewhich is not so dark. I see.

Stars are out and there is sea
enough beneath the glistening earth
to bear me toward the future
which is not so dark. I see.

Frank O'Hara quotes: There should be so much more, not of orange, of words, of how terrible orange is and life.

There should be so much more, not of orange, of words, of how terrible orange is and life.

Frank O'Hara quotes: I love you. I love you, but I'm turning to my versesand my heart is closinglike a fist.

I love you. I love you,
but I'm turning to my verses
and my heart is closing
like a fist.

Frank O'Hara quotes: I wonder if the course of narcissism through the ages would have been any different had Narcissus first peered into a cesspool. He probably did.

I wonder if the course of narcissism through the ages would have been any different had Narcissus first peered into a cesspool. He probably did.

Frank O'Hara quotes: My heart is in my/ pocket. It is poems by Pierre Reverdy.

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

Frank O'Hara quotes: That's not a run in your stocking, it's a hand on your leg.

That's not a run in your stocking, it's a hand on your leg.

Frank O'Hara quotes: Leaf! you are so big!How can you change yourcolor, then just fall!As if there were nosuch thing as integrity!

Leaf! you are so big!
How can you change your
color, then just fall!
As if there were no
such thing as integrity!

Frank O'Hara quotes: ... my words are lovewhich willfully parades inits room, refusing to move.

... my words are love
which willfully parades in
its room, refusing to move.

Frank O'Hara quotes: It may be the coldest day of The year, what does he think of That? I mean, what do I? And if I do, Perhaps I am myself again.

It may be the coldest day of The year, what does he think of That? I mean, what do I? And if I do, Perhaps I am myself again.

Frank O'Hara quotes: all I want is a room up thereand you in it

all I want is a room up there
and you in it

Frank O'Hara quotes: If you don't appearat all one day they think you're lazyor dead.

If you don't appear
at all one day they think you're lazy
or dead.

Frank O'Hara quotes: You just go on your nerve.

You just go on your nerve.

Frank O'Hara quotes: Even trees understand me! Good heavens, I lie underthem, too, don't I? I'm just like a pile of leaves.

Even trees understand me! Good heavens, I lie under
them, too, don't I? I'm just like a pile of leaves.

Frank O'Hara quotes: Pain always produces logic, which is very bad for you.

Pain always produces logic, which is very bad for you.

Frank O'Hara quotes: I have been to lots of parties and acted perfectly disgraceful but I never actually collapsed oh Lana Turner we love you get up

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

Frank O'Hara quotes: Now I am quietly waiting for the catastrophe of my personality to seem beautiful again, and interesting, and modern.

Now I am quietly waiting for the catastrophe of my personality to seem beautiful again, and interesting, and modern.