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

“In times of crisis, we must all decide again and again whom we love.”

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

“My Heart”

“I love you. I love you,”

“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 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”

“I’ve been here before, dreaming myself”

“Poetry is the language of intensity. Because we are going to die, an expression of intensity is justified.”

“From childhood's hour I have not been”

“But writing poems and letters doesn't seem to do much good.”

“I dream of lost vocabularies that might express some of what we no longer can.”

“She was a Phantom of delight”