Frank O'Hara - Day Quotes

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"Sun, don't go!" I was awake
at last. "No, go I must, they're calling
me."
"Who are they?"
Rising he said, "Some day you'll know. They're calling to you too." Darkly he rose, and then I slept.

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When I die, don't come, I wouldn't want a leaf to turn away from the sun — it loves it there. There's nothing so spiritual about being happy but you can't miss a day of it, because it doesn't last.

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It is 12:20 in New York a Friday
three days after Bastille Day, yes
it is 1959 and I go get a shoeshine
because I will get off the 4:19 in Easthampton
at 7:15 and then go straight to dinner
and I don't know the people who will feed me

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Each time my heart is broken it makes me feel more adventurous (and how the same names keep recurring on that interminable list!), but one of these days there'll be nothing left with which to venture forth. Why should I share you? Why don't you get rid of someone else for a change?

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I wouldn't want to be faster or greener than now if you were with me O you were the best of all my days!

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Now I am quietly waiting for
the catastrophe of my personality
to seem beautiful again,
and interesting, and modern. The country is grey and
brown and white in trees,
snows and skies of laughter
always diminishing, less funny
not just darker, not just grey. It may be the coldest day of
the year, what does he think of
that? I mean, what do I? And if I do,
perhaps I am myself again.

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If you don't appear
at all one day they think you're lazy
or dead.

Frank O'Hara