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

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

“...but it is good to be several floors up in the dead of night wondering whether you are any good or not and the only decision you can make is that you did it...”

“You just go on your nerve.”

“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.”

“That's not a run in your stocking, it's a hand on your leg.”

“I am the least difficult of men. All I want is boundless love.”

“How are poets able to unzip what they see around them, calling forth a truer essence from behind a common fact? Why, reading a verse about a pear, do you see past the fruit in so transcendent a way?”

“So runs my dream, but what am I?”

“we are the boat”

“Love's language is imprecise,”

“Si todos los rios son dulces”

“all they want to do”