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Frank O'Hara Quotes

Frank O'Hara quotes

American Poet June 27, 1926 – July 25, 1966

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I don't believe in god, so I don't have to make elaborately sounded structures. ... Pain always produces logic, which is very bad for you. ... As for measure and other technical apparatus, that's just common sense: if you're going to buy a pair of pants you want them to be tight enough so everyone will want to go to bed with you. There's nothing metaphysical about it. Frank O'Hara
Frank O'Hara quote: "And don't worry about your lineagepoetic or natural."
And don't worry about your lineagepoetic or natural. Frank O'Hara
Frank O'Hara quote: "and I have mastered the speed and strength which is thearmor..."
and I have mastered the speed and strength which is thearmor of the world. 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
it is hard to believe when I’m with you that there can be anything as still as solemn as unpleasantly definitive as statuary when right in front of it in the warm New York 4 o’clock light we are drifting back and forth between each other like a tree breathing through its spectacles Frank O'Hara
Frank O'Hara quote: "The stars fellone by one into his eyes and burnt."
The stars fellone by one into his eyes and burnt. Frank O'Hara
The stars blink like a hairnet that was dropped / on a seat and now it is lying in the alley behind / the theatre where my play is echoed by dying voices. Frank O'Hara
Frank O'Hara quote: "Pain always produces logic, which is very bad for you."
Pain always produces logic, which is very bad for you. Frank O'Hara
Frank O'Hara quote: "I don't think I want to win anything I think I want to die..."
I don't think I want to win anything I think I want to die unadorned. Frank O'Hara
Frank O'Hara quote: "I embraced a cloudbut when I soaredit rained."
I embraced a cloudbut when I soaredit rained. Frank O'Hara
Frank O'Hara quote: "Andalways embrace things, people earthsky stars, as I do,..."
Andalways embrace things, people earthsky stars, as I do, freely and withthe appropriate sense of space. Frank O'Hara
Frank O'Hara quote: "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
As for measure and other technical apparatus, that’s just common sense: if you’re going to buy a pair of pants you want them to be tight enough so everyone will want to go to bed with you. There’s nothing metaphysical about it. Unless, of course, you flatter yourself into thinking that what you’re experiencing is “yearning. 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
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

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