120 Quotes by Frank O'Hara

One need never leave the confines of New York to get all the greenery one wishes--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.

Love is not gentle,like the dust of a room;love is a thing that happensin a room, and becomes dust.

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

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

we are all happy and young and toothlessit is the same as old agethe only thing to do is simply continueis that simpleyes, it is simple because it is the only thing to docan you do ityes, you can because it is the only thing to do

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

all I want is a room up thereand you in it

Stars are out and there is seaenough beneath the glistening earthto bear me toward the futurewhich is not so dark. I see.

I'm glad that the rock is heavy and that it feels all right in my heart like an eye in a pot of humus. Let's write long letters on grand themes, fish sandwiches, egg sandwiches and cheese; or travelling in Mexico, Italy and Australia. I eat a lot so I won't get drunk and then I drink a lot so I'll feel excited and then I've gone away I don't know where or with whom and can't remember whom from except that I'm back with my paper bag and next time my face won't come with me.