Frank O'Hara Quotes

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

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 about being happy
but you can't miss a day of it, because it doesn't last.

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 one trusts me. I am always looking away. Or again at something after it has given me up.

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 do not totally regret life. It's more important to confirm the least sincere. The clouds get enough attention as it is...

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

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

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

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

...but it is good to be several floors up in the dead of night wondering whether you are any good or not and the only decision you can make is that you did it...

I have been to lots of parties
and acted perfectly disgraceful
but I never actually collapsed
oh Lana Turner we love you get up

You just go on your nerve.

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

And
always embrace things, people earth
sky stars, as I do, freely and with
the appropriate sense of space.