Frank O'Hara Short Quotes

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It is easy to be beautiful; it is difficult to appear so.

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I am the least difficult of men. All I want is boundless love.

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I call
to the spirits of other lands to make fecund my existence

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I don't think I want to win anything I think I want to die unadorned.

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

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And I have mastered the speed and strength which is the armor of the world.

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Life perpetuated in parti-colored loves and beautiful lies all in different languages.

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

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I love you. I love you, but I'm turning to my verses and my heart is closing like a fist.

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I'm becoming the street. Who are you in love with? me? Straight against the light I cross.

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There should be so much more, not of orange, of words, of how terrible orange is and life.

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I am not a painter. I am a poet. / Why? I think I would rather be / a painter, but I am not.

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There is a geography which holds its hands just so far from the breast and pushes you away, crying so.

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Even trees understand me! Good heavens, I lie under them, too, don't I? I'm just like a pile of leaves.

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

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My quietness has a man in it, he is transparent and he carries me quietly, like a gondola, through the streets.

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Leaf! you are so big! How can you change your color, then just fall! As if there were no such thing as integrity!

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And
always embrace things, people earth
sky stars, as I do, freely and with
the appropriate sense of space.

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Oh god it's wonderful to get out of bed and drink too much coffee and smoke too many cigarettes and love you so much

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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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It is even in
prose, I am a real poet. My poem
is finished and I haven't mentioned
orange yet It's twelve poems, I call
it oranges.

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I wonder if the course of narcissism through the ages would have been any different had Narcissus first peered into a cesspool. He probably did.

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I dislike a great deal of contemporary poetry - all of the past you read is usually quite great - but it is a useful thorn to have in one's side.

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I wanted to be sure to reach you; though my ship was on the way it got caught in some moorings. I am always tying up and then deciding to depart.

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