120 Quotes by Frank O'Hara

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 chapter no one reads because the plot is over.

I’m becoming the street. Who are you in love with? me? Straight against the light I cross.

Destroy yourself, if you don’t know!

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.

It may be that poetry makes life’s nebulous events tangible to me and restores their detail; or conversely, that poetry brings forth the intangible quality of incidents which are all too concrete and circumstantial. Or each on specific occasions, or both all the time.

Mothers of America let your kids go to the movies! get them out of the house so they won’t know what you’re up to it’s true that fresh air is good for the body but what about the soul that grows in darkness, embossed by silvery images and when you grow old as grow old you must they won’t hate you.

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

Even trees understand me! Good heavens, I lie under them, too, don’t I? I’m just like a pile of leaves.

There’s too much lime in the world and not enough gin.