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

“I am ashamed of my century, but I have to smile.”

“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!”

“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”

“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.”

“I worry there is something broken in our generation,”

“I am two fools, I know,”

“I swear, I end up feeling empty, like you've taken something out of me and I have to search my body for scars.”

“The princess”

“With you a part of me hath passed away;”

“hanging at the corner
of then and now
the
everything”