--- title: "1 Shall Hear Quotes By Frank O'Hara" description: "1 Shall Hear quotes by Frank O'Hara. Plus more from Frank O'Hara and more Shall Hear sayings from other authors." image: "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/2a4/frank-o-hara-6706_abuse_i-take-this-for-myself-and-you-take-up-t_2633216.jpg" --- > [I take this for myself, and you take up the thread of my life between your teeth, tin thread and tarnished with abuse, you shall still hear as long as the beast in me maintains its taciturn power to close…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/frank-o-hara/i-take-this-for-myself-and-you-take-up-the-thread-of-my-life-between/) [Frank O'Hara](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/frank-o-hara/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/2a4/frank-o-hara-6706_abuse_i-take-this-for-myself-and-you-take-up-t_2633216.jpg) ## More by 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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/frank-o-hara/the-stars-blink-like-a-hairnet-that-was-dropped-on-a-seat-and-now-it/) [Frank O'Hara](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/frank-o-hara/) > [“It's a bright summer day, and I want to be wanted more than anything else in the world.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/frank-o-hara/it-s-a-bright-summer-day-and-i-want-to-be-wanted-more-than-anything/) [Frank O'Hara](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/frank-o-hara/) > [See how free we are! as a nation of persons.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/frank-o-hara/see-how-free-we-are-as-a-nation-of-persons/) [Frank O'Hara](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/frank-o-hara/) > [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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/frank-o-hara/i-don-t-believe-in-god-so-i-don-t-have-to-make-elaborately-sounded/) [Frank O'Hara](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/frank-o-hara/it-is-hard-to-believe-when-i-m-with-you-that-there-can-be-anything-as/) [Frank O'Hara](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/frank-o-hara/i-am-moved-by-the-multitudes-of-your-intelligence-and-sometimes/) [Frank O'Hara](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/frank-o-hara/) > [When I am feeling depressed and anxious sullen all you have to do is take off your clothes and all is wiped away revealing…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/frank-o-hara/when-i-am-feeling-depressed-and-anxious-sullen-all-you-have-to-do-is/) [Frank O'Hara](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/frank-o-hara/) > [I don't ... like rhythm, assonance, all that stuff. You just go on your nerve. If someone's chasing you down the street with a…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/frank-o-hara/i-don-t-like-rhythm-assonance-all-that-stuff-you-just-go-on-your/) [Frank O'Hara](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/frank-o-hara/) > [“One need never leave the confines of New York to get all the greenery one wishes--I can't even enjoy a blade of grass unless…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/frank-o-hara/one-need-never-leave-the-confines-of-new-york-to-get-all-the-greenery/) [Frank O'Hara](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/frank-o-hara/) > [“Now That I Am in Madrid I Can Think " I think of you and the continents brilliant and arid and the slender heart…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/frank-o-hara/now-that-i-am-in-madrid-i-can-think-i-think-of-you-and-the-continents/) [Frank O'Hara](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/frank-o-hara/) > [Kerouac: You're ruining American poetry, O'Hara. O'Hara: That's more than you ever did for it, Kerouac](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/frank-o-hara/kerouac-you-re-ruining-american-poetry-o-hara-o-hara-that-s-more-than/) [Frank O'Hara](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/frank-o-hara/) > [I am ashamed of my century, but I have to smile.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/frank-o-hara/i-am-ashamed-of-my-century-but-i-have-to-smile/) [Frank O'Hara](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/frank-o-hara/) > [I call to the spirits of other lands to make fecund my existence](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/frank-o-hara/i-call-to-the-spirits-of-other-lands-to-make-fecund-my-existence/) [Frank O'Hara](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/frank-o-hara/but-it-is-good-to-be-several-floors-up-in-the-dead-of-night-wondering/) [Frank O'Hara](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/frank-o-hara/) > [There were occasionally rifts in the cloud where the face of a woman appeared, frowning.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/frank-o-hara/there-were-occasionally-rifts-in-the-cloud-where-the-face-of-a-woman/) [Frank O'Hara](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/frank-o-hara/) ```json { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@graph": [ { "@type": "ItemList", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/shall-hear/frank-o-hara/#itemlist", "name": "1 Shall Hear Quotes By Frank O'Hara", "numberOfItems": 1, "itemListElement": [ { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 1, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "I take this for myself, and you take up the thread of my life between your teeth, tin thread and tarnished with abuse, you shall still hear as long as the beast in me maintains its taciturn power to close my lids in tears, and my loins move yet in the ennobling pursuit of all the worlds you have left me alone in, and would be the dolorous distraction from, while you summon your army of anguishes which is a million hooting blood vessels on the eyes and in the ears at that instant before death.", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Frank O'Hara" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/frank-o-hara/i-take-this-for-myself-and-you-take-up-the-thread-of-my-life-between/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/2a4/frank-o-hara-6706_abuse_i-take-this-for-myself-and-you-take-up-t_2633216.jpg", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/2a4/frank-o-hara-6706_abuse_i-take-this-for-myself-and-you-take-up-t_2633216.jpg", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/2a4/frank-o-hara-6706_abuse_i-take-this-for-myself-and-you-take-up-t_2633216.jpg", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“I take this for myself, and you take up the thread of my life between your teeth, tin thread and tarnished…” — Frank O'Hara", "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "creator": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } } } } ] }, { "@type": "CollectionPage", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/shall-hear/frank-o-hara/#webpage", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/shall-hear/frank-o-hara/", "name": "Shall Hear Quotes by Frank O'Hara", "isPartOf": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#website" }, "mainEntity": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/shall-hear/frank-o-hara/#itemlist" }, "primaryImageOfPage": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/2a4/frank-o-hara-6706_abuse_i-take-this-for-myself-and-you-take-up-t_2633216.jpg" }, "description": "1 Shall Hear quotes by Frank O'Hara. 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