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

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

“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”

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

“I love you. I love you,”

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

““It doesn't have to be on Valentine's Day. It doesn't have to be by the time you turn eighteen or thirty-three or fifty-nine. It doesn't have to conform to whatever is usual. It doesn't have to be kismet at once, or rhapsody by the third date.”

“There is no intensity of love or feeling that does not involve the risk of crippling hurt. It is a duty to take this risk, to love and feel without defense or reserve.”

““Well, it's true that I have been hurt in my life. Quite a bit. But it's also true that I have loved, and been loved. and that carries a weight of its own. A greater weight, in my opinion. It's like that pie chart we talked about earlier. in the end, I'll look back on my life and see that the greatest piece of it”

““I'm like you,' he said. 'I remember everything.'”

“...maybe it's only fitting that relationship that started with a lie would end with one.”