120 Quotes by Frank O'Hara

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

The artificial is always innocent.

See how free we are! as a nation of persons.

The poem is at last between two persons instead of two pages. In all modesty, I confess that it may be the death of literature as we know it.

My heart is in my/ pocket. It is poems by Pierre Reverdy.

Mothers of America / let your kids go to the movies!

I wish I weren’t reeling at all.

There should be so much more, not of orange, of words, of how terrible orange is and life.

I am not a painter. I am a poet. / Why? I think I would rather be / a painter, but I am not.