120 Quotes by Frank O'Hara

And don't worry about your lineage poetic or natural.

oh mothers you will have made the little tykes so happy because if nobody does pick them up in the movies they won't know the difference and if somebody does it'll be sheer gravy

If you don't appear at all one day they think you're lazy or dead.

I get a little Verlaine for Patsy with drawings by Bonnard although I do think of Hesiod, trans. Richmond Lattimore or Brendan Behan's new play or Le Balcon or Les Negres of Genet, but I don't, I stick with Verlaine after practically going to sleep with quandariness

I call to the spirits of other lands to make fecund my existence

the beauty of America, neither cool jazz nor devoured Egyptian heroes, lies in lives in the darkness I inhabit in the midst of sterile millions

There is a geography which holds its hands just so far from the breast and pushes you away, crying so.

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

The stars fell one by one into his eyes and burnt.