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Frank O'Hara
1926-1966
Frank O'Hara Quotes
"All things are tragic when a mother watches!" -Frank O'Hara
"Pain always produces logic, which is very bad for you.!" -Frank O'Hara
"The artificial is always innocent. " -Frank O'Hara
" I don't think I want to win anything. I think I want to die unadorned." -Frank O'Hara
"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..."
-Frank O'Hara
"I have been to lots of parties
and acted perfectly disgraceful
but I never actually collapsed—oh Lana Turner we love you—get up"
-Frank O'Hara
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"That's not a run in your stocking, it's a hand on your leg"
-Frank O'Hara
"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."
-Frank O'Hara
"I am ashamed of my century, but I have to smile" -Frank O'Hara
"I'm not going to cry all the time
nor shall I laugh all the time,
I don't prefer one "strain" to another.
I'd have the immediacy of a bad movie,
not just a sleeper, but also the big,
overproduced first-run kind.
I want to be at least as alive as the vulgar. And if some aficionado of my mess says "That's not like Frank!," all to the good! I don't wear brown and grey suits all the time, do I? No. I wear workshirts to the opera,
often. I want my feet to be bare,
I want my face to be shaven, and my heart--you can't plan on the heart, but
the better part of it, my poetry, is open." -Frank O'Hara
"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." -Frank O'Hara (Meditations in an Emergency)
"It is easy to be beautiful; it is difficult to appear so." -Frank O'Hara
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Anne Waldman class on Frank O'Hara's poems. (July 21, 1976)
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