Frank O'Hara Quotes
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I can't even enjoy a blade of grass unless I know there's a subway handy, or a record store or some other sign that people…
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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 knife…
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I wish I weren’t reeling at all.
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Mothers of America / let your kids go to the movies!
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My heart is in my/ pocket. It is poems by Pierre Reverdy.
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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…
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See how free we are! as a nation of persons.
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Pain always produces logic, which is very bad for you.
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The artificial is always innocent.
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I don't think I want to win anything I think I want to die unadorned.
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And don't worry about your lineage poetic or natural.
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O my enormous piano, you are not like being outdoors
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I am not a painter. I am a poet. / Why? I think I would rather be / a painter, but I am not.
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After the first glass of vodka you can accept just about anything of life even your own mysteriousness you think it is nice that a…
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That's not a run in your stocking, it's a hand on your leg.
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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…
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I am ashamed of my century, but I have to smile.
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My Heart I'm not going to cry all the time nor shall I laugh all the time, I don't prefer one "strain" to another. I'd…
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When I die, don't come, I wouldn't want a leaf to turn away from the sun -- it loves it there. There's nothing so spiritual…
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I have been to lots of parties and acted perfectly disgraceful but I never actually collapsed oh Lana Turner we love you get up
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