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Dear:
I am dying
without you, and I won't be dying long. But don't come.
Best always,
Frank — Frank O'Hara
I am dying
without you, and I won't be dying long. But don't come.
Best always,
Frank — Frank O'Hara
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
heroes, lies in
lives in the darkness I inhabit in the midst of sterile millions — Frank O'Hara
I'm trying to do what Frank O'Hara did and remind myself there there's a lot of good stuff. I write about New York for my own mental health.
— Frankie Cosmos
I am always tying up
and then deciding to depart. — Frank O'Hara
and then deciding to depart. — Frank O'Hara
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
and at the same time the waters rushing past remind
me of nothing
I'm so damn empty — Frank O'Hara
Oh! kangaroos, sequins, chocolate sodas! / You really are beautiful! Pearls, / harmonicas, jujubes, aspirins!
— Frank O'Hara
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
mouth
and dying in black and white we fight for what we love, not are — Frank O'Hara
Oh Lana Turner we love you get up
— Frank O'Hara
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
O my enormous piano, you are not like being outdoors
— Frank O'Hara
I seem to be defying fate, or am I avoiding it?
— Frank O'Hara
They were too young then to know what they would ultimately need from a barren and heart-sore life ...
— Frank O'Hara
And don't worry about your lineage poetic or natural.
— Frank O'Hara
Life perpetuated in parti-colored loves
and beautiful lies all in different languages. — Frank O'Hara
and beautiful lies all in different languages. — Frank O'Hara
I am ashamed of my century, but I have to smile.
— Frank O'Hara
I embraced a cloud,
but when I soared
it rained. — Frank O'Hara
but when I soared
it rained. — Frank O'Hara
People loved to talk about how Frank O'Hara didn't really care about getting published. That doesn't jibe with my experience.
— Eileen Myles
Grace / to be born and live as variously as possible
— Frank O'Hara
All the Frank O'Hara types seem to have very little sound stuff going ... it's so chatty or something.
— Tom Verlaine
Kerouac: You're ruining American poetry, O'Hara.
O'Hara: That's more than you ever did for it, Kerouac — Frank O'Hara
O'Hara: That's more than you ever did for it, Kerouac — Frank O'Hara
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
There is a geography which holds its hands just so far from the breast and pushes you away, crying so.
— Frank O'Hara
A man was the cause of it.
An unarmed man with a weapon. — Frank O'Hara
An unarmed man with a weapon. — Frank O'Hara
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
or greener than now if you were with me O you
were the best of all my days! — Frank O'Hara
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
My heart is in my/ pocket. It is poems by Pierre Reverdy.
— Frank O'Hara
The artificial is always innocent.
— Frank O'Hara
And always embrace things, people earth sky stars, as I do, freely and with the appropriate sense of space.
— Frank O'Hara
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
The stars fell one by one into his eyes and burnt.
— Frank O'Hara
There's too much lime in the world and not enough gin
— Frank O'Hara
I'm becoming
the street.
Who are you in love with?
me?
Straight against the light I cross. — Frank O'Hara
the street.
Who are you in love with?
me?
Straight against the light I cross. — Frank O'Hara
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
to get out of bed
and drink too much coffee
and smoke too many cigarettes
and love you so much — Frank O'Hara
There were occasionally
rifts in the cloud where the face
of a woman appeared, frowning. — Frank O'Hara
rifts in the cloud where the face
of a woman appeared, frowning. — Frank O'Hara
Destroy yourself, if you don't know!
— Frank O'Hara
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
enough beneath the glistening earth
to bear me toward the future
which is not so dark. I see. — Frank O'Hara
There should be so much more, not of orange, of words, of how terrible orange is and life.
— Frank O'Hara
I love you. I love you,
but I'm turning to my verses
and my heart is closing
like a fist. — Frank O'Hara
but I'm turning to my verses
and my heart is closing
like a fist. — Frank O'Hara
See how free we are! as a nation of persons.
— Frank O'Hara
That's not a run in your stocking, it's a hand on your leg.
— Frank O'Hara
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
How can you change your
color, then just fall!
As if there were no
such thing as integrity! — Frank O'Hara
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
all I want is a room up there
and you in it — Frank O'Hara
and you in it — Frank O'Hara
You just go on your nerve.
— Frank O'Hara
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
them, too, don't I? I'm just like a pile of leaves. — Frank O'Hara
Pain always produces logic, which is very bad for you.
— Frank O'Hara
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