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

“My Heart”

“One need never leave the confines of New York to get all the greenery one wishes--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”

“You just go on your nerve.”

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

“After the first glass of vodka”

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

“She found herself”

“I now wish that I had spent somewhat more of my life with verse. This is not because I fear having missed out on truths that are incapable of statement in prose. There are no such truths; there is nothing about death that Swinburne and Landor knew but Epicurus and Heidegger failed to grasp. Rather, it is because I would have lived more fully if I had been able to rattle off more old chestnuts — just as I would have if I had made more close friends.”

“Poetry [is] more necessary than ever as a fire to light our tongues.”

“Dogfish”

“I know wherever you are, there are poems.”

“I told you in the course of this paper that Shakespeare had a sister; but do not look for her in”