I don't ... like rhythm, assonance, all that stuff. You just go on your nerve. If someone's chasing you down the street with a knife you just run, you don't turn around and shout, 'Give it up! I was a track star for Mineola Prep.'
I am always tying up and then deciding to depart. - Frank O'Hara
I am always tying up and then deciding to depart.
- Frank O'Hara
Grace / to be born and live as variously as possible - Frank O'Hara
Grace / to be born and live as variously as possible
And always embrace things, people earth sky stars, as I do, freely and with the appropriate sense of space. - Frank O'Hara
And always embrace things, people earth sky stars, as I do, freely and with the appropriate sense of space.
Now I am quietly waiting for the catastrophe of my personality to seem beautiful again, and interesting, and modern. - Frank O'Hara
Now I am quietly waiting for the catastrophe of my personality to seem beautiful again, and interesting, and modern.
O my enormous piano, you are not like being outdoors - Frank O'Hara
O my enormous piano, you are not like being outdoors
It may be that poetry makes life's nebulous events tangible to me and restores their detail; or conversely, that poetry brings forth the intangible q… - Frank O'Hara
It may be that poetry makes life's nebulous events tangible to me and restores their detail; or conversely, that poetry brings forth the intangible q…
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 - 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
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 - Frank O'Hara
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
I embraced a cloud but when I soared it rained. - Frank O'Hara
I embraced a cloud but when I soared it rained.
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