Best Frank O'Hara Quotes
- A man was the cause of it. An unarmed man with a weapon. Cause
- 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.… Always Produces
- Poem (Lana Turner has collapsed!) Lana Turner has collapsed! I was trotting along and suddenly it started raining and snowing and you said it was… Acted
- You just go on your nerve. Go
- Now I am quietly waiting for the catastrophe of my personality to seem beautiful again, and interesting, and modern. Beautiful
- However, I have never clogged myself with the praises of pastoral life, nor with nostalgia for an innocent past of perverted acts in pastures. No.… Acts
- I loved her fright, which was against me into the air! and the diamond white of her forelock which seemed to smart with thoughts as… Air
- and I have mastered the speed and strength which is the armor of the world. Armor
- The stars fell one by one into his eyes and burnt. Burnt
- There is a geography which holds its hands just so far from the breast and pushes you away, crying so. Away Crying
- There were occasionally rifts in the cloud where the face of a woman appeared, frowning. Appeared
- 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… Cold
- 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… Adventurous
- Even trees understand me! Good heavens, I lie under them, too, don't I? I'm just like a pile of leaves. Even Trees
- Destroy yourself, if you don't know! Destroy
- 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… Admire
- I've got to get out of here. I choose a piece of shawl and my dirtiest suntans. I'll be back, I'll re-emerge, defeated, from the… Choose
- 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… Abuse
- I embraced a cloud but when I soared it rained. Cloud
- Leaf! you are so big! How can you change your color, then just fall! As if there were no such thing as integrity! Big
- 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… Coldest
- oh god it’s wonderful to get out of bed and drink too much coffee and smoke too many cigarettes and love you so much Bed
- I'm becoming the street. Who are you in love with? me? Straight against the light I cross. Becoming
- Now I am quietly waiting for the catastrophe of my personality to seem beautiful again, and interesting, and modern. The country is grey and brown… Beautiful
- Grace / to be born and live as variously as possible Born