Frank O'Hara Quotes

I embraced a cloud,but when I soaredit rained.

I am moved by the multitudes of your intelligence and sometimes, returning, I become the sea— in lov...

Too many poets act like a middle-aged mother trying to get her kids to eat too much cooked meat, and...

My eyes are vague blue, like the sky, and change all the time; they are indiscriminate but fleeting,...

I love you. I love you, but I’m turning to my versesand my heart is closinglike a fist.

willow trees, willow trees they remind me of DesdemonaI'm so damned literaryand at the same time the...

Oh say can you see Alma. The darlingof Them. All her friends were artists.They alone have memories. ...

...but it is good to be several floors up in the dead of night wondering whether you are any good or...

… and I’ll be happy here and happy there, fullof tea and tears

you know we've all sinned a lot against scienceso we really ought to be as available as an appleon a...

… my words are lovewhich willfully parades inits room, refusing to move.

Mothers of America let your kids go to the movies! get them out of the house so they won't know what...

Oh! kangaroos, sequins, chocolate sodas! / You really are beautiful! Pearls, / harmonicas, jujubes, ...

I am the least difficult of men. All I want is boundless love.

Andalways embrace things, people earthsky stars, as I do, freely and withthe appropriate sense of s...

That's not a run in your stocking, it's a hand on your leg.

I am stuck in traffic in a taxicabwhich is typicaland not just of modern life

You just go on your nerve.

When I die, don't come, I wouldn't want a leafto turn away from the sun -- it loves it there.There's...

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

I have been to lots of partiesand acted perfectly disgracefulbut I never actually collapsedoh Lana T...

My HeartI'm not going to cry all the timenor shall I laugh all the time,I don't prefer one "strain" ...

Stars are out and there is seaenough beneath the glistening earthto bear me toward the futurewhich i...

After the first glass of vodkayou can accept just about anythingof life even your own mysteriousness...

I have, for my own projected works and ideas, only the silliest and dewiest of hopes; no matter what...

I wouldn’t want to be faster or greener than now if you were with me O you were the best of all my d...

You are the sick prince of my cerise innovations and in your drowning caresses I walk the sea

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