Frank O'Hara - Face Quotes

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I wear workshirts to the opera, often. I want my feet to be bare, I want my face to be shaven, and my heart— you can't plan on the heart, but the better part of it, my poetry, is open.

Frank O'Hara

There were occasionally rifts in the cloud where the face of a woman appeared, frowning.

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If I am ever to find these trees meaningful I must have you by the hand. As it is, they stretch dusty fingers into an obscure sky, and the snow looks up like a face dirtied with tears. Should I cry out and see what happens? There could only be a stranger wandering in this landscape, cold, unfortunate, himself frozen fast in wintry eyes.

Frank O'Hara

The only truth is face to face, the poem whose words become your
mouth
and dying in black and white we fight for what we love, not are

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