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Frank O'Hara Quotes

Frank O'Hara quotes about beauty

American Poet June 27, 1926 – July 25, 1966

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Frank O'Hara quote: "life perpetuated in parti-colored loves and beautiful lies all..."
life perpetuated in parti-colored loves and beautiful lies all in different languages. Frank O'Hara
I have, for my own projected works and ideas, only the silliest and dewiest of hopes; no matter what, I am romantic enough or sentimental enough to wish to contribute something to life’s fabric, to the world’s beauty.... [S]imply to live does not justify existence, for life is a mere gesture on the surface of the earth, and death a return to that from which we had never been wholly separated; but oh to leave a trace, no matter how faint, of that brief gesture! For someone, some day, may find... Frank O'Hara
Now I am quietly waiting forthe catastrophe of my personalityto seem beautiful again, and interesting, and modern. The country is grey andbrown and white in trees, snows and skies of laughteralways diminishing, less funnynot just darker, not just grey. It may be the coldest day ofthe year, what does he think ofthat? I mean, what do I? And if I do, perhaps I am myself again. Frank O'Hara
Frank O'Hara quote: "Now I am quietly waiting for the catastrophe of my personality..."
Now I am quietly waiting for the catastrophe of my personality to seem beautiful again, and interesting, and modern. Frank O'Hara
It is easy to be beautiful; it is difficult to appear so. I admire you, beloved, for the trap you've set. It's like a final chapter no one reads because the plot is over. Frank O'Hara
Frank O'Hara quote: "Oh! kangaroos, sequins, chocolate sodas! / You really are..."
Oh! kangaroos, sequins, chocolate sodas! / You really are beautiful! Pearls, / harmonicas, jujubes, aspirins! Frank O'Hara

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