City life Quote 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…

— Frank O'Hara

“It's a bright summer day, and I want to be wanted more than anything else in the world.”

— Frank O'Hara

See how free we are! as a nation of persons.

— 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…

— 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…

— 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…

— 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…

— 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…

— 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…

— Frank O'Hara

Kerouac: You're ruining American poetry, O'Hara. O'Hara: That's more than you ever did for it, Kerouac

— Frank O'Hara

I am ashamed of my century, but I have to smile.

— Frank O'Hara

I call to the spirits of other lands to make fecund my existence

— Frank O'Hara