Best Quotes by Frank O'Hara (Top 10)

  1. Now I am quietly waiting for the catastrophe of my personality to seem beautiful again, and interesting, and modern.
  2. 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
  3. 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 box of matches is purple and brown and is called La Petite and comes from Sweden for they are words that you know and that is all you know words not their feelings or what they mean and you write because you know them not because you understand them because you don't you are stupid and lazy and will never be great but you do what you know because what else is there?
  4. I am the least difficult of men. All I want is boundless love.
  5. I embraced a cloud but when I soared it rained.
  6. 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 obscure sky, and the snow looks up like a face dirtied with tears. Should I cry out and see what happens? There could only be a stranger wandering in this landscape, cold, unfortunate, himself frozen fast in wintry eyes.
  7. Andalways embrace things, people earthsky stars, as I do, freely and withthe appropriate sense of space.
  8. Oh! kangaroos, sequins, chocolate sodas! / You really are beautiful! Pearls, / harmonicas, jujubes, aspirins!
  9. Even trees understand me! Good heavens, I lie under them, too, don't I? I'm just like a pile of leaves.
  10. Grace / to be born and live as variously as possible

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