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Frank O'Hara Quotes

Frank O'Hara quotes

American Poet June 27, 1926 – July 25, 1966

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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. 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: "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
My HeartI'm not going to cry all the timenor shall I laugh all the time, I don't prefer one "strain" to another. I'd have the immediacy of a bad movie, not just a sleeper, but also the big, overproduced first-run kind. I want to be at least as alive as the vulgar. And if some aficionado of my mess says "That's not like Frank!," all to the good! I don't wear brown and grey suits all the time, do I? No. I wear workshirts to the opera, often. I want my feet to be bare, I want my face to be... Frank O'Hara
Each time my heart is broken it makes me feel more adventurous (and how the same names keep recurring on that interminable list!), but one of these days there'll be nothing left with which to venture forth. Why should I share you? Why don't you get rid of someone else for a change? 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
If I am ever to find these trees meaningful I must have you by the hand. As it is, they stretch dusty fingers into an obscure sky, and the snow looks up like a face dirtied with tears. Should I cry out and see what happens? There could only be a stranger wandering in this landscape, cold, unfortunate, himself frozen fast in wintry eyes. Frank O'Hara
Too many poets act like a middle-aged mother trying to get her kids to eat too much cooked meat, and potatoes with drippings (tears). I don't give a damn whether they eat or not. Forced feeding leads to excessive thinness (effete). Nobody should experience anything they don't need to, if they don't need poetry bully for them. I like the movies too. And after all, only Whitman and Crane and Williams, of the American poets, are better than the movies. Frank O'Hara
Frank O'Hara quote: "I wouldn’t want to be faster or greener than now if you were..."
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
Frank O'Hara quote: "Even trees understand me! Good heavens, I lie underthem, too,..."
Even trees understand me! Good heavens, I lie underthem, too, don't I? I'm just like a pile of leaves. Frank O'Hara
and the portrait show seems to have no faces in it at all, just paint you suddenly wonder why in the world anyone ever did them I look at you and I would rather look at you than all the portraits in the world except possibly for the Polish Rider occasionally and anyway it’s in the Frick which thank heavens you haven’t gone to yet so we can go together the first time Frank O'Hara
Frank O'Hara quote: "Leaf! you are so big! How can you change yourcolor, then just..."
Leaf! you are so big! How can you change yourcolor, then just fall! As if there were nosuch thing as integrity! Frank O'Hara
...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... Frank O'Hara

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