Poetry Quote by Frank O'Hara — Inspiring Words on Life, Love & Wisdom

“I embraced a cloud,”

“Oh! kangaroos, sequins, chocolate sodas! / You really are beautiful! Pearls, / harmonicas, jujubes, aspirins!”

“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”

“My Heart”

“Too many poets act like a middle-aged mother trying to get her kids to eat too much cooked meat, and potatoes with drippings (tears). I don't give a damn whether they eat or not. Forced feeding leads to excessive thinness (effete). Nobody should experience anything they don't need to, if they don't need poetry bully for them. I like the movies too. And after all, only Whitman and Crane and Williams, of the American poets, are better than the movies.”

“When I die, don't come, I wouldn't want a leaf”

“Without poets, without artists... everything would fall apart into chaos. There would be no more seasons, no more civilizations, no more thought, no more humanity, no more life even; and impotent darkness would reign forever. Poets and artists together determine the features of their age, and the future meekly conforms to their edit.”

“You have dirty hands and dark wild eyes, but by far you are the purest heart I have ever known.”

“Haleine contre haleine, échauffe-moi la vie,”

“here’s a toast to Alan Turing”

“come back so i can say yes this time do it again now that i know what to call what you did”

“Till Human voices wake us, and we drown.”